Gu Cheng

Gu Cheng (1956-1993) was a Chinese poet, writer, and novelist. He is known for modernist disjunctive style and willingness to challenge Communist literary orthodoxy. He was prominent among the "Misty Poets".

Wisdom & Quotes

• The world I feel, within the realm of art, is more genuine than the world of matter. Artistic feeling is not tape measures, spectrographs, or flash camera lens.
• The country folks here extended their warm hands,

But here there were also the gleaming green eyes of wolves.
- speaking of his family's exile to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution

• The night has given me dark eyes

But I use them to look for light.

• Who is moving in the distance?

It is the clock's pendulum,
Hired by the god of death
To measure life.

• I want to paint windows all over the earth and let eyes accustomed to darkness grow accustomed to light.

- I Am a Willful Child

Syed Qutb