子曰:“朝闻道,夕死可矣。”
【译文】 孔子说:“早上理解真理,晚上死也值得。”
The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt it didn't matter.
"I think it is in the nature of poetry to be open to the world, to be open to experience, to be open to the other."