Xi Murong

Xi Murong (Chinese: 席慕容; pinyin: Xí Mùróng; born 1943) is a Taiwanese writer and painter. She is most famous for her poetry, especially the collections Qi li xiang (Seven-li scent) and Wuyuan de qingchun (Unregrettable Youth).

Quotes
Why write poetry Why not do Something useful Then I won't know How to answer you I am like a goldsmith hammering day and night Just so I can extend pain Into a gold ornament as thin as a cicada's wing I don't know if working so hard To transform sorrows into Shimmering words and phrases Is also Beautifully worthwhile.
 * If you ask me abruptly
 * "Poetry's Value", in Where Books Fall Open: A Reader's Anthology of Wit & Passion (David R. Godine Publisher, 2003), p. 56