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By Bai Juyi
Translation 1
Speak person not know know person silent This saying I hear from old gentleman If Way old gentleman be know person Reason what confident five thousand characters
Translation 2
Those who speak do not know, those who know are silent, I heard this saying from the old gentleman. If the old gentleman was one who knew the way, Why did he feel able to write five thousand words? This poem is volume (jun) 455, no. 1 in the Complete Tang Poems (qun tng sh). Captured from http://www.chinese-poems.com/bj10t.html