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。

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

诗歌是情感的表达。情感必须来自自然,但衡量的尺度可以通过艺术获得。

A walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.

一个行走的影子,一个可怜的演员,在舞台上趾高气扬,焦躁不安,然后就再也听不见了。

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。

It's the most ridiculous business to be in. It's full of people who have never grown up.

这是最荒谬的行业。到处都是从未长大的人。

I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.

我认为减税是可笑的,但我也是。