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You ask Why...

"You ask why I make my home in the mountain forest,
and I smile, and am silent,
and even my soul remains quiet:
it lives in the other world
which no one owns.
The peach trees blossom,
The water flows."

Li Po (701-762)
from _Endless River: Li Po and Tu Fu: A Friendship in Poetry_
Translated by Sam Hamill

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