You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
他的诗,如同几何圆规般,画著圆,时而亲密贴近,时而广及全球,唯一不变的是,圆规的尖端总是插定在囚室里。
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.