Wang Wei Quotes

君自故鄉來，應知故鄉事。
來日綺窗前，寒梅著花未？

I have just seen you go down the mountain.
I close the wicker gate in the setting sun.
The grass will be green again in coming spring,
But will the wanderer ever return?

In the mountains a night of rain,
And above the trees a hundred springs.

泛舟大河裏，積水窮天涯。
天波忽開拆，郡邑千萬家。
行復見城市，宛然有桑麻。
回瞻舊鄉國，淼漫連雲霞。

空山不見人，但聞人語響。
返景入深林，復照青苔上。

紅豆生南國，春來發幾枝。
願君多採擷，此物最相思。

All alone in a foreign land,
I am twice as homesick on this day
When brothers carry dogwood up the mountain,
Each of them a branch—and my branch missing.

独在异乡为异客，每逢佳节倍思亲。
遥知兄弟登高处，遍插茱萸少一人。

渭城朝雨浥轻尘，客舍青青柳色新。
劝君更尽一杯酒，西出阳关无故人。

Red beans come from Southern country,
Few blossoms on vines when Spring comes.
For my sake please pick many of them,
They are the best symbol of true love.

The cold mountain turns dark green.
The autumn stream flows murmuring on.
Leaning on my staff beneath the wicket gate,
In the rushing wind I hear the cry of the aged cicada.

Empty hills, no one in sight,
only the sound of someone talking;
late sunlight enters the deep wood,
shining over the green moss again.

独坐幽篁里，弹琴复长啸。
深林人不知，明月来相照。

You have come from my home,
So you must know about things at home.
On the day you left—in front of my open-work window,
Had the winter plum opened into blossom yet?

The boat set sail upon the great river
whose swollen waters stretched to sky's edge.
Sky and waves split apart suddenly—
the district capital's thousands of homes.
Moving on, I can see the town market
and vaguely make out mulberry and hemp.
I turn to gaze back toward my homeland—
only vast floods that stretch to the clouds.