This sentence comes from Gu Cheng's poem "A Generation"
The specific original text is as follows:
The night gave me black eyes
I But use it to find the light
"A Generation" is a poem written by Gu Cheng, a poet of the Misty School, in Beijing in 1979. This poem is one of the representative works of hazy poetry in the new era and is widely circulated. It expresses the voice of a generation and entrusts its ideals and ambitions - the tenacious desire and persistent pursuit of "light" after experiencing the "dark night".
Gu Cheng, an important representative poet of the Chinese Misty Poetry School, is known as a contemporary "spiritual romantic" poet. Gu Cheng has high attainments in new poetry, old-style poetry and allegorical poetry. The line "The night gave me black eyes/I use them to find light" in his "Generation" has become a classic line of new Chinese poetry.
Born in 1956 in a family of poets, his father is the famous poet Gu Gong. Gu Cheng began his writing career at the age of 17 and contributed articles to various newspapers and magazines. In 1987, he began to travel to Europe for cultural exchanges. In 1988, he lived in seclusion in Waiheke Island, New Zealand, and lived a self-sufficient life. On October 8, 1993, due to a marriage dispute at his residence in New Zealand, he injured his wife Xie Ye with an ax and then hanged himself in a big tree. Xie Ye subsequently died from his injuries.