Wu Ts’ailuan : My mind is like a jade jar of ice

For some information about the Taoist poet Wu Ts’ailuan, see this post.

My mind is like a jade jar of ice,
Never invaded by even half a mote of dust.
Though the jade jar be obscured without,
I pay no mind at all —
On the terrace of Immortals,
I climb straight to the highest level.

Translation Thomas Cleary

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