Lu Tong Quotes About Tea

• La primera copa acaricia mis labios y garganta secos, La segunda hace añicos los muros de mi soledad, La tercera explora los secos riachuelos de mi alma Buscando leyendas de cinco mil pergaminos. Con el cuarto el dolor de la injusticia pasada se desvanece por mis poros. El quinto purifica mi carne y mis huesos. Con el sexto comulgo con los inmortales. El séptimo transmite tal placer que me vence. El viento fresco sopla a través de mis alas mientras me dirijo a Penglai.

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  Wall, Pain, Loneliness

• I am in no way interested in immortality, but only in the taste of tea.

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  Tea, Way, Taste

• The first cup moistens my lips and throat; The second cup breaks my loneliness; The third cup searches my barren entrail but to find therein some thousand volumes of odd ideographs; The fourth cup raises a slight perspiration-all the wrongs of life pass out through my pores; At the fifth cup I am purified; The sixth cup calls me to the realms of the immortals. The seventh cup-ah, but I could take no more! I only feel the breath of the cool wind that raises in my sleeves. Where is Elysium? Let me ride on this sweet breeze and waft away thither.

  Lu Tong

  Sweet, Loneliness, Wind

• I am not interested in immortality but only in tea flavour.

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  Tea, Immortality, Flavour

• The first bowl sleekly moistened throat and lips, The second banished all my loneliness The third expelled the dullness from my mind, Sharpening inspiration gained from all the books I've read. The fourth brought forth light perspiration, Dispersing a lifetimes troubles through my pores. The fifth bowl cleansed every atom of my being. The sixth has made me kin to the Immortals. This seventh... I can take no more.

  Lu Tong

  Loneliness, Book, Inspiration

• I care not a jot for immortal life, but only for the taste of tea.

  Lu Tong

  Tea, Care, Taste