“I pluck chrysanthemums beneath the eastern hedge, and gaze at ease at the southern mountains.”

— Tao Yuanming · Calm quote

I pluck chrysanthemums beneath the eastern hedge, and gaze at ease at the southern mountains. — Tao Yuanming quote card
Poet · 365 – 427

Tao Yuanming was a Chinese poet who gave up a government career to farm and write in the countryside. His 'Peach Blossom Spring' and drinking poems made him the patron saint of the simple, self-chosen life.

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