Did Xu Zhimo write the poem "Forget yourself"?

The poem "Forget yourself" was written by Xu Zhimo. It is speculated that this poem was written by Xu Zhimo because he loved Lin.

The original text is as follows:

In your life, you should forget yourself for someone at least once.

No grades, no peers.

I don't want to have it, or even love me.

I just want to meet you in my most beautiful years!

Personal life

1920, Xu Zhimo met Lin, a talented woman, and Xu Zhimo had a close relationship with her. Xu Zhimo filed for divorce with Zhang Youyi on March 1922, arguing that the two should not continue their married life without love and freedom. Free divorce, no more pain and happiness, this is Xu Zhimo's simple idealism. He is pursuing an ideal life. To this end, he wrote many poems for Lin, such as Listening to the Qin on a Moonlit Night, Ode to Youth, and Dream of Spring in the Wind, which expressed his love and life ideals and constituted the important contents of his poems in this period.