Bei Dao

Bei Dao (b.1949), also Zhao Zhenkai, is a Chinese-US poet. He is known as an innovative poet for applying cinematic montage techniques to his works.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Perhaps the final hour is come

I have left no testament
Only a pen, for my mother
I am no hero
In an age without heroes
I just want to be a man.
- Declaration, The August Sleepwalker

• Let me tell you, world,

I-do-not-believe!
If a thousand challengers lie beneath your feet,
Count me as number one thousand and one.

• I don't believe the sky is blue;

I don't believe in thunder's echoes;
I don't believe that dreams are false;
I don't believe that death has no revenge.
- The Answer, The August Sleepwalker

Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington