As Huang Yung-wu, a professor of Chinese, tells it, poetry can make up for deficiencies in history, because "poetry can enter deeply into the very fabric of one's life, to one's inner spirit. Sometimes it's more real than history."
誠如大學中文系教授黃永武所言，「詩」可以補「史」的不足，因為「詩深入生活的細節，心靈的內層，有時比史更真實」。