That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.

  • -- Galway Kinnell 金内尔

诗歌就是这样:当你无法理解它时,它显得深奥;当你理解它时,它只是荒谬。

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Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.

因此,我们尽我们所能地驳斥了一切可能表明我们认为上帝在某种程度上是有形的概念,然后我们又说,根据严格的真理,上帝是不可理解的,是不能被衡量的。

We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous.

我们参与的是一部神曲,我们应该意识到这出戏永远是一部喜剧,因为我们最终都是可笑的。

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

解释使我们从惊讶中分离出来,而惊讶是通向不可理解事物的唯一途径。

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

所有的激情都使我们犯错误;爱让我们做出最荒唐的事。

Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.

诗就像梦:你把你不知道你知道的东西放进了诗里。

A mighty flame follows a tiny spark.

星星之火,可以燎原。