You ask why I make my home n 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 Bai (701 CE-762 CE), Li Bai was a Chinese poet acclaimed from his own day to the present as a genius and a romantic figure who took traditional poetic forms to new heights.