In his introduction to Thirteen White Chrysanthemums, Chou uses a line from the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore to describe his state of mind at the age of 83: "Release me from my unfulfilled past clinging to me from behind making death difficult."
周公且引了《泰戈爾詩集》的話當引言：「我的，未完成的過去，使我難於死；請從那 & # 0 ; 釋放我吧！」代表他 83 歲當時的心情。