Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use words to construct a better world, a fictitious world that enables us to sign a pact for a permanent and comprehensive peace ... with life.

文学是社会的镜子，反映其美德和恶习。

你不能像站在水滑梯顶端的孩子那样想太多，你必须滑下去。

译文：立下难以实现的志向，才能吃别人不可能吃的苦，做别人不能做的事，千秋功业，才有得指望；对人对事若发现错误而不忍心去指责、纠正，那么必然会因为不忍心去说而造成祸害。