"Life is precious, but love is more expensive. If you are free, you can throw both" comes from the poem Freedom and Love by Hungarian poet Petfi Sándor.

Freedom and Love is a short poem written by Petfi Sándor, a Hungarian poet, in 1847. It was translated by Yin Fu, a leftist writer, and spread by Lu Xun, and was well known to readers in China. Later, translators Sun Yong and Xing Wansheng translated and published this poem respectively, but the version of "Life is precious, love is more expensive, if you are free, you can throw both" written by Yin Fu, a leftist writer, which was once introduced into middle school Chinese textbooks and became one of the most familiar foreign poems in China.

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1. the original text of this poem (Hungarian)

Szabadság, Szerelem!

E kett? kell nekem

Szerelmemért f? láldozom

Az életet,

Szabadságért f? láldozom

Szerelmemet.

-Pet? Petofi Sandor (1823-1849) was a famous patriotic fighter and poet in Hungary. At the age of 25, he led an armed uprising in Budapest, the capital of Hungary, which later evolved into a great patriotic war. In the battle with the Austrian rulers assisted by the Tsar's army, petofi galloped on the battlefield with poetry as a weapon, holding a combat knife and a quill pen, and finally died heroically in the battlefield, at the age of 26 years and 7 months. However, as early as 197, petofi's life and works were introduced to China, and the first contributor was the great writer Lu Xun. Lu Xun wrote in his works "The Theory of Moro Poetry", "Hope" and "<: Benliu > Edited Postscript and many other articles, all recommended and introduced petofi with great enthusiasm.