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.

Always cut away from yourself.

译文：锦官城里每日音乐声轻柔悠扬，一半随着江风飘去，一半飘入了云端。这样的乐曲只应该天上有，人间里哪能听见几回?

在你的生活中保持规律和有序，这样你才能在作品中表现得激烈而富有原创性。

I'm just coming out and I'm going to clearly be me. I write what I feel, I never worry what others think.

现代采石场管理需要地质学家的眼睛、工程师的双手和诗人的心灵。

不要用战术的勤奋掩盖战略的懒惰。