Thought for the Day

A heart that is distant creates a wilderness round it.

~ T'ao Ch'ien

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Quoted from T'ao Ch'ien, "[i built my hut]" (trans. Arthur Waley) in A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems, 1918; Public Domain. (The poem appeared in Every Day Poems on September 18, 2023.)

T'ao Ch'ien (365 C.E. - 427 C.E.), Chinese Poet and Politician (The poet also was known as T'ao Yuan-ming.)

The Selected Poems of T'ao Ch'ien (trans. David Hinton), Copper Canyon Press, 2000