The poet is a man who manages to be, in his own lifetime, what all men would like to be after their death.
心有成见,就好像用水浇石头,水一点都进不去;对事理不能领悟,则拘泥而不变通,一点都转动不得。
The money and effort that men expend on their bodies, they might with greater profit devote to their minds.