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		xarope on July 6, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tao Te Ching translated by Ursula Le Guin (1997) the way has many ways yet are not the way (I'm sure someone can put on their yoda hat and do even better!)

t-3 on July 6, 2024 [–]

My long-aborted attempt at a poetic translation of the first few lines:

  The road which can be walked is well trodden

  The name which can be said is said often

  The universe was born with no witness

  But we can know the origin of everything in it

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