As Bystander Sees It


A range from the front; a ridge from the wing

Although the same mountain, different angles render different views

You don’t realize the truth of Mount Lu

Only because you are in the depths of it

~ Translated by Dot, from Su Shi’s “A Poem on The Wall of West Wood,” which he inscribed to West Wood Temple in the Song dynasty

横看成岭侧成峰,远近高低各不同。
不识庐山真面目,只缘身在此山中。

~ 蘇軾 (宋代) <<題西林壁>>