Li Bai (701–762), also written Li Po, is a poet of the Chinese Tang dynasty, honored since his own century as the shixian, the Immortal of Poetry. Roughly a thousand poems survive under his name, built from wine, moonlight, mountain travel, parting friends, and a Daoist appetite for freedom. He is conventionally paired with his friend Du Fu as one of the two greatest poets in the Chinese tradition.
In one of the most quoted poems in Chinese, a man sets a jug among the flowers with nobody to drink with, so he invites the moon, and the moon brings his shadow, and the three of them make a party. He admits the moon cannot drink and the shadow only copies him. He toasts them anyway. It is a poem about being completely alone that somehow reads like the best night of your life.