There are no rules in writing, just tools.
Poetry is the medium through which we confront our own solitude.
The other thing about modern society and why it causes this anxiety, is that we have nothing at its center that is non-human. We are the first society to be living in a world where we don't worship anything other than ourselves. We think very highly of ourselves, and so we should; we've put people on the Moon, done all sorts of extraordinary things. And so we tend to worship ourselves.
"A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. So the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion."
【译文】 孔子说:“不要担心没有地位,要注意做人的立场;不要怕没人了解自己,要想法使自己容易得到理解。”