Li He 李賀
poet · Tang China · 790–816
A poet of genius barred from the examinations because a word in the degree's name sounded like his father's name. He died at twenty-seven.
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In Chang'an there is a young man. At twenty his heart has already rotted.
長安有男兒，二十心已朽。"For Chen Shang," in the Complete Tang Poems
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