"What Li Shangyin's poems are about I cannot determine. I cannot even explain the literal meaning line by line. Yet I feel they are beautiful, and when I read them, they give me a new kind of pleasure in my mind."
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Liang Qichao, as quoted in Chloe Garcia Roberts's introduction to Li Shangyin (New York Review of Books, 2018),
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Li Shangyin
Li Shangyin (Chinese: 李商隐, c. 813–858), courtesy name Yishan (義山), was a Chinese poet of the late Tang Dynasty.
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