This is a blog of translations of the first verse of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching by the writers listed below:
Bart Marshall
Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English
Steven Mitchell
Stephen F. Kaufman
Ursula K. Le Guin
Witter Bynner
Frank J. MacHovec
Raymond B. Blakney
Raghavan Iyer
Jonathan Star
John C. H. Wu
Stephen Addiss and Stanley Lombardo
Dwight Goddard
Ellen M. Chen
Brian Browne Walker
R. L. Wing
John H. McDonald
Ralph Alan Dale
Victor H. Mair
Victor H. Mair
David Hinton