Writing is a way of making sense of the world.
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."
Music and letters are the two wings of the same spirit.
The key to solving complex problems is to ask the right causal questions.
——抵日本神户时谈话，1895年11月12日