The Hard and Great Go Under

Image / Vaclav Volrab


Living people
are soft and tender.
Corpses are hard and stiff.
The ten thousand things,
the living grass, the trees,
are soft, pliant.
Dead, they're dry and brittle.

So hardness and stiffness
go with death;
tenderness, softness,
go with life.

And the hard sword falls,
the stiff tree's felled.
The hard and great go under.
The soft and weak stay up.


- Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: A Book About the Way and the Power of the Way,
Translated by Ursula K. Le Guin



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