It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.

  • -- Eugenio Montale 蒙塔莱

诗性语言对散文语言的影响可以看作是一种决定性的鞭策。

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Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.

因为,如果一个人今天在写小说,那么专注于散文之美和专注于分号一样,都是白费力气。

Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibration as in twanging them to bring out their music.

说话就像弹琴;把双手放在琴弦上以停止琴弦的振动,与拨弄琴弦以奏出音乐一样重要。

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

散文在某些场合可以承载大量的诗歌;另一方面,诗歌在适度的散文重压下沉沦和沉沦。

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

诗歌是语言的命运之一……有人会说,诗意的意象,就其新颖性而言,为语言打开了一个未来。

It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

我相信,我们之所以会发展语言,是因为我们内心深处有一种抱怨的需求。

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

没有诗意的想法;只有诗意的话语。