美文欣赏：汪国真《热爱生命》（双语）

Loving Life

Wang Guozhen

I don’t want to consider
If I’ll be able to succeed.
Since I’ve decided to go to a distant place,
I’ll try my best to make the trip.

I don’t want to consider
If I’ll be able to obtain love.
Since I’m deep in love with roses,
I’ll show my sincerity boldly.

I don’t want to consider
If I’ll meet with the cold wind and rain.
Since my destination is the horizon,
I’ll leave a deep impression on the Earth.

I don’t want to consider
If my future will be smooth or bumpy.
If only I love my life,
Everything is to be expected.

Well-known Chinese poet Wang Guozhen has died of liver cancer. He passed away in Beijing on Sunday morning, aged 59.

Wang was also a calligrapher and painter. He was one of the few poets of the recent decades who is still remembered by a large number of people, especially the middle-aged, in China. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Wang’s popularity among literature fans soared.

And he had a lasting impact. In a speech during the APEC meetings in 2013, President Xi Jinping quoted Wang’s lines “No roads too long to be measured by feet; No mountains too high to be conquered by man".

Web users expressed their sadness and showed their respect for the Wang’s death, with many saying he was a great poet who influenced their youth.