The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.
敗壞德行的行為有許多，而酗酒必定敗德；傷害生命的行為也有許多，而好色必定傷生。
"I am not afraid of aging. I am afraid of not living fully."
The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given nature, but result from the social process which creates man.
If you're alive, you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, you've got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death.