Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity—it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
最好的采石场不仅在地面上留下洞，还在社区中留下价值。
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
水利工程的成功取决于人与自然的和谐。
正该来时，先生（老子）应时来到这世间；正该去时，先生顺时离开这世间。安于时势，顺应自然规律，哀乐就不能进入心中。