After laboring away for 12 years, he finally had a Chinese-language poem published in 1958 in the newspaper Public Opinion. His first collection of Chinese verse, Poems from a Secret Forest, was published in 1963.
經過 12 年苦修，1958 年，陳千武終於在「公論報」發表第一首中文新詩，1963 年出版第一本中文詩集《密林詩抄》。