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长风破浪会有时，直挂云帆济沧海。
Close English reading
A time will come to ride the long wind and break the waves; I will set my cloudlike sail straight across the vast sea.
Plain meaningYour chance will come. Keep going toward the larger horizon.
SourceLi Bai · Tang dynasty · Hard Is the Way of the World, No. 1
Complete Tang Poems
Complete Tang Poems
Why it fitsIt holds hope after frustration without pretending the road has been easy.
Original context and translation note
行路难，行路难，多歧路，今安在？
English wording on Gu Ren Said is an original reading aid, not a claim that there is only one valid literary translation.