Previously, any foreign atmosphere in Yang Mu's poetry came from his imagination. He went on frequent travels in his poetry, visiting Brussels, Madagascar, Rome, Greece and elsewhere, but in real life he had never left Taiwan. "As a modern person," Yang says, "one ought to keep an eye out for opportunities to surpass oneself in a new place."
雖然布魯塞爾、馬達加斯加、羅馬、希臘都曾出現在他的詩中，也在詩裡一次又一次遠去，但，「作為一個現代人，應該等待或者去追求另一個異時異地的高潮。」