I am MountainQuiet. My username comes from a poem by the Sung Dynasty poet, Wang An-Shih (1021-1086). The poem is called "Here at Bell Mountain,"
Here at Bell Mountain
Water soundless, a wandering stream skirts bamboo forest. West of bamboo, wildflowers trace spring's tender assent.
Facing all this beneath thatch eaves, I sit through the day: Not a single bird. No song. Mountain quiet goes deeper still.[1]
I take creative inspiration from literature, cinema, and music, and my interests are manifold, ranging from the arts to philosophy to local history to ecology to 21st century technologies. I am new to wikipedia. I have no philosophy and no goals. I will edit and revise according to my whims.
- ^ An-Shih, Wang. The Late Poems of Wang An-Shih. Translated by David Hinton. New Directions Books. 2015.