Tang poet called the 诗鬼, 'Ghost of Poetry', for his eerie, otherworldly verse, as 李白 is the Immortal of Poetry. Lines of his still quoted include 天若有情天亦老.
Lǐ Hè de shī xiǎngxiàng qítè, rénmen jiào tā " shīguǐ ".
Li He's poems are so strangely imaginative that people call him the 'Ghost of Poetry'.
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李商隐 wrote that he rode out with an old brocade bag, dropping in lines as they came, and his mother said he would not stop until he coughed up his heart. From her words comes 呕心, 'spitting out one's heart', for agonising over writing, as in 呕心沥血.
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He was kept from the 进士 examination because his father's name began with 晋, which sounds the same as 进, and a son was not supposed to use his father's name. 韩愈 protested in the essay 讳辩 'On Taboo Names', in vain.
