The classic sentences in the name of poetry are as follows:
1. As a rational function, the purpose of poetry is to produce a sense of surprise.
2. Poetry cannot be assimilated into science and ethics. Once assimilated, it will die and decline.
3. The words of the poem contain the meaning of walking and the music of flying.
4. Poetry is the language of art - the highest language, the purest language.
5. Beauty alone is not enough for poetry. Poetry should touch people's hearts and guide the obedient soul to the artistic conception of the poem.
6. Poetry is not an expressed opinion. It is a song that springs from a wound or a smile.
7. Various human emotions are expressed in extremely perfect forms in poetry; it is as if they can be picked up with fingers.
8. Songs feel infinite in the air, and pictures feel infinite on the ground. Poetry is the same whether it is in the air or on the ground.
9. Poetry is God’s words, and poetry does not necessarily exist only in rhymes. Poetry is everywhere. Wherever there is beauty and life, there is poetry.
10. Poetry can escape the grave, make great achievements immortal in history, and pass on famous names from generation to generation.
Introduction
"In the Name of Poetry" is Xi Murong's seventh poetry collection, which includes his latest poetry creations. Most of the works included in the collection were written after 2005. The poet also deliberately included some carefully selected old works, some of which have never been published, and some of which have been published but never included in the collection of poems.
So this becomes a collection in which time is layered and intertwined in the name of poetry. The poet has traveled back and forth between Taiwan and the Mongolian grasslands many times in recent years. As a Mongolian who is far away from his ethnic group and his own history and culture, the poet used the publication of this collection of poems to relive his spiritual journey back home, and finally in his heart, Find your own hometown in poetry.