Yeh consistently emphasizes the importance of nativist writing to all young lovers of literature, trying-spiritedly as always, and single-handedly if need be-to halt the movement of modern literature into what he sees as the wrong direction. The flag-bearer of days gone by has not gone anywhere.
在台灣的各種文學場合，葉石濤也一再對年輕文學愛好者強調鄉土書寫的重要性，頗有隻手欲力挽文學書寫場域失衡狂瀾的氣勢，當年擎旗的葉石濤猶然未去。