Old Days

1) "Believe nothing, no matter where 你 read it 或者 who has 说 it, even if I have 说 it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."-- Buddha

2) "Let us all rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we did get sick, at least we didn't die. So let us all be thankful."-- Buddha

3) "If 你 do not breathe through writing, if 你 do not cry out in 写作 或者 sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it."-- Anais Nin

4) "Give a man...

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Robert Frost

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
Paul Valery

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
E. M. Forster

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Oscar Wilde

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in 爱情 with language.
W. H. Auden

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
Wallace Stevens

A poet must leave traces of...