—Liu Hsieh, The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons, Chapter 6 (translated by Vincent Yu-chung Shih)
Although the form of poetry has a universal norm, the workings of poets' minds are never stereotyped. Each writes according to his own nature and gifts, and few are able to encompass all the good qualities. If a poet has a shrewd understanding of the difficult, he will find his course easy; but if he carelessly attempts to treat everything as easy, the difficult will certainly remain there in store for him.
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