When I was only three or four, I fell in love with poetry, with the rhythms and the music of language; with the power of metaphor and of imagery, poetry being the essence of communication -- the discipline, the distillation.
当我只有三四岁时, 便爱上了诗歌， 爱它充满节奏和 音乐般的语言； 也爱它富含的隐喻和意象， 诗是交流的本质与精华—— 是锤炼，是升华。