"When writing poetry, you have to create a language that belongs to you," Chen says. The motive behind writing poetry is poetry, and the language that suits that is the language of poetry.
「寫詩必須創作屬於自己的詩的語言，」陳千武表示，寫詩的動機本身就是詩，找出配合它的語言就是詩的語言。