诗歌应当以优美的丰盈而非奇特来使人惊喜——它应当让读者觉得表达了他自己最高尚的思想，几乎像是一种回忆。
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity—it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
小说是一面走在路上的镜子。
The past is a story we tell ourselves.
悲伤越深，艺术越伟大。
小说是一面沿着大路行走的镜子。
Truth is a free creation of the human spirit, that never would exist at all if we did not generate it ourselves.