The full text of "Life is precious" is only four lines, the whole poem: "Life is precious, love is more expensive; if it is for the sake of freedom, both can be thrown away".
Life is precious from the poet Pedro Pét?fi's "Freedom and Love". Pedro Pét?fiászándár is a great Hungarian revolutionary poet and the founder of Hungarian national literature. He was born in a poor butcher's family and lived a difficult life since he was a child.
"Freedom and Love" is a short poem written by the Hungarian poet Pet?fi in 1847, which was translated by the Left League writer Yin Fu and spread by Lu Xun, and was familiar to the majority of Chinese readers. Later it was once introduced into secondary school textbooks and became one of the most familiar foreign poems to Chinese readers.
Background of the author
In September 1846, the 23-year-old Petofi met Sendele Yulia, the daughter of the Count of Ilnots, at a ball. The innocence and honesty of this slender, beautiful girl with light blue eyes made the young poet fall in love at first sight. The count, who owned a large landed estate, refused to marry his daughter to a poor poet like Petofi.
In the face of resistance, Pedrofi's feelings for Julia were still unstoppable and he sent out a love poem in half a year's time, such as "To Julia", "I am a man who carries love", "You love the spring", "The dismal autumn wind whispers in the woods", "Give me twenty kisses at once" and so on. These treasures of lyrical poetry encouraged Yulia to break through the shackles of her father and family and to enter the wedding hall with Petofi a year later.
At this moment, the European land had already been flooded with revolution, and the Hungarian people's uprising was like a gushing lava. In the honeymoon, Petofi's joy and melancholy were intertwined. He did not want to indulge in private life in a mediocre way and wrote the famous aphoristic poem "Freedom and Love".