<Header>
<Author: 白居易>
<Title: 讀老子>
<Format: 七言絕句>
<Year: 1981>
<BookName: Tu Fu -A New Translation>
<Translator: Wu, Juntao>
<TranslatedTitle: Reading Lao-tzu>
<BookPage: 91>
<UsedPage: 1>
<Feature: 1>
<End Header>
<Poem>
言者不如知者默，
此語吾聞於老君。
若道老君是知者，
緣何自著五千文。
<End Poem>
<Translation>
Those who speak do not know,
Those who know are silent.
I have heard these words from Sir Lao,
But if you say that Sir Lao
Was one who knew,
Then why did he write
Five thousand words?
<End Translation>
<Formatted Translation>
Those who speak do not know, but those who know are silent.
I have heard these words from Sir Lao,
But if you say that Sir Lao was one who knew,
Then why did he write five thousand words?
<End Formatted Translation>