Given that question, Yang Mu pauses to think, reflecting upon what was going through his mind when he penned those words: "There was a stage of life, neither long nor brief, when I was searching for something, where I wandered in the realm of my will and imagination. There was a kind of joy in finding poetry, and poetry has since become my hometown."
楊牧略加思索，似在回想下筆當時的心境：「曾經有段不長不短的日子，我在尋覓著什麼，在意志和想像的世界裡『流浪』，直到若有若無地捕捉到了詩，似乎是一種喜悅，乃以詩為歸宿。」