Although Vertigo Lin notes that Oscar Wilde once said that all bad poetry is sincere, author Wang Wen-hsing points out that Chinese thinkers have long considered sincerity the foundation of good writing.
林信安說，雖然英國作家王爾德曾輕蔑地說過：「所有的壞詩都很誠懇。」但作家王文興卻也提出「修辭立其誠」的說法。