Peach Blossoms Quotes

• Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

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  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive   Wise   Wisdom  

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• Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms.

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  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Beautiful   Uplifting   Memorial Day  

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1903). “Ponkapog Papers”

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• Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (2) Thousands of willow branches in a spring wind. Six hundred million of China, land of the gods, and exemplary like the emperors Shun and Yao. A scarlet rain of peach blossoms turned into waves and emerald mountains into bridges. Summits touch the sky. We dig with silver shovels and iron arms shake the earth and the Three Rivers. God of plagues, where are you going? We burn paper boats and bright candles to light his way to heaven.

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  Mao Zedong

  Spring   Rain   Land  

  Zedong Mao (2008). “The Poems of Mao Zedong”, p.91, Univ of California Press

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• Walking on willow tree roads by a river dappled with peach blossoms, I look for spring light, but am everywhere lost. Birds fly up and scatter floating catkins. A ponderous wave of flowers sags the branches.

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  Wang Wei

  Spring   Flower   Light  

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• You ask me why I dwell in the green mountain; I smile and make no reply for my heart is free of care. As the peach-blossom flows down stream and is gone into the unknown, I have a world apart that is not among men.

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  Li Bai

  Spring   Heart   Men  

  Li Po, “Green Mountain”

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• I am asked why I live in the green mountains; I smile but reply not, for my heart is at rest. The flowing waters carry the image of the peach blossoms far, far away; there is an earth, there is a heaven, unknown to men.

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  Li Bai

  Heart   Men   Water  

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