Xiang Yang, who had poems selected for the collection Frontier Taiwan: An Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry, says that translation is an act of re-creation. When he sees his poems translated into a foreign language, it is like "looking at some other person."
詩作被選入「二十世紀台灣現代詩選」的向陽指出，翻譯是另一種再創造，當他看到自己被翻譯成外國語言的詩，難免有「好像看到另外一個人」的感覺。