"Life is precious, love is more expensive, if for freedom, both can be thrown away" is from the poem Freedom and Love by the Hungarian poet Pedrofi Sandor.
"Freedom and Love" is a short poem written by the Hungarian poet Péd?fi Santor in 1847, translated by the Leftist writer Yinfo. Lu Xun spread the word and became familiar to a wide range of Chinese readers. Later, translators Sun Yu and Xing Wansheng translated and published the poem, but it was the leftist writer Yin Fu's version, "Life is precious, love is more expensive, and if it is for the sake of freedom, both can be thrown away", which was once introduced into secondary schools. This version was once introduced into secondary school textbooks and became one of the most familiar foreign poems to Chinese readers.
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1. The original text of the poem
Szabadság, Szerelem!
E kett? ért f?láldozom
Az életet,
Szabadságért f?láldozom
Szerelmemet.
Pet?fi Sandor, 1847
2,Biography of the Author: Petofi Sandor (1823-1849) was a famous Hungarian patriotic fighter and poet. At the age of 25, he led an armed uprising in the Hungarian capital of Budapest, which evolved into the Great Patriotic War. In the battle against the Austrian rulers assisted by the tsarist army, Pet?fi rode the battlefield with poetry as his weapon, with a sword and a quill, and finally died a heroic death on the battlefield at the age of 26 years and 7 months. However, as early as in 1907, Pedolfi's life and works were introduced to China, and the first person to be credited for this was the great writer Mr. Lu Xun. Mr. Lu Xun recommended and introduced Pedrofi's life and works with great enthusiasm in his writings "Moro Poetry", "Hope", "<Running Stream> Afterword to the Editorial", etc. He also wrote about Pedrofi's life and works with great enthusiasm.