With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Bio: Lien Fang Yu born April 14, 1943 in Chongqing as Fang Yu, is the wife of Lien Chan, the Chairman of Taiwan's Kuomintang party from 2000 to 2005. Fang is a former Miss Republic of China.
