Wang Anshi 王安石

statesman · man of letters · Song China · 1021–1086

Chief minister of the Song, who pushed through the New Policies to remake the state.

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1050 · At thirty, on his way home after a term as a provincial official

I am not afraid of drifting clouds that hide the view, for I am standing on the very highest level.

不畏浮雲遮望眼，自緣身在最高層。

"Climbing Feilai Peak," in the Complete Song Poems