Qu Yuan's famous sayings from Li Sao are as follows:

1. The road is long and long, and I will search up and down.

Translation:

The road ahead is long and far, and I will pursue my ideal up and down.

Appreciation:

This sentence shows the poet's courage and determination to pursue the truth, and reflects the poet's spirit of perseverance and never giving up and his unswerving noble quality. "Li Sao" is a passionate political lyric and an artistic masterpiece combining realism and romanticism.

2. Drink the magnolias in the morning and the dew falls, and eat the autumn chrysanthemums in the evening.

Translation:

In the morning I drank the dew drops on the magnolias, and in the evening I used the remaining petals of chrysanthemums to satisfy my hunger.

Appreciation:

The poet used metaphorical techniques and used Mulan and Qiuju to compare the noble conduct of a gentleman, expressing the poet's unwillingness to conform to the secular world. The plots of the fragments written in the poem are only used as emotional carriers to externalize the struggle of thoughts and emotional changes. However, these plots are very effective in avoiding the shortcomings of long lyric poems that tend to become empty.

3. Everyone has their own happiness in life, but I only take it as a matter of course to cultivate. Even though I understand you, I haven't changed yet, so I don't have the heart to punish you.

Translation:

Common people live a variety of pleasures, and I take it for granted that I love and cultivate myself alone. Even if I am dismembered, my thoughts will not change, so how can I frustrate my lofty ambitions?

Appreciation:

Due to the poet's incomparable anger and irrepressible passion, the whole poem is like the rushing of a river, vast and without any trace. However, if you think carefully, both the poetic conception and the external structure reflect the poet's extraordinary artistic ingenuity.