Leading poet of 朦胧诗, the Misty Poetry of the late 1970s, and co-founder of the magazine 今天. His poem 回答 opens with 卑鄙是卑鄙者的通行证. Abroad from 1989, he later taught in Hong Kong.
Běi Dǎo de míng jù ' bēibǐ shì bēibǐ zhě de tōngxíngzhèng ' guǎngwéi chuán sòng.
Bei Dao's famous line 'Baseness is the passport of the base' is widely quoted.
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The pen name 北岛, 'northern island', dates from the founding of 《今天》: he came from the north and liked solitude. The first line of 《回答》 has a second half that is quoted with it: 高尚是高尚者的墓志铭, 'nobility is the epitaph of the noble'.
