文学是发现普通人身上非凡之处的艺术,用普通的语言表达非凡的东西。
"Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary."
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science, is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, such men make this cosmos and its construction in the pivot of their emotional life, in ordered to find the peace and the security, which they cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.
The poet is the voice of the silent universe.