I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.

不一定是你我的母亲，而是一个理想母亲的想象，一个永远义无反顾的爱你，不在乎你是否功成名就的人，不幸地，大部分世人都不怀有这种母爱，大部分世人决定要花费多少时间，给于多少爱，不一定是浪漫的那种爱，虽然那也包括在内，世人所愿意给我们的关爱、尊重，取决于我们的社会地位。

上帝只期望你做一件事，那就是你应该走出自己，因为你是一个被创造的存在，让上帝在你里面成为上帝。

诗歌是一种非常个人化的艺术。

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.