Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

  • -- W. S. Merwin 默文

诗歌就像一个笑话。如果你在一个笑话的结尾把一个单词拼错了,你就失去了整件事。

相关名言

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

诗歌;一种对生活的批判在一定条件下为这样一种批判规定了诗性真与诗性美的规律。

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.

如果你太过努力地演喜剧,你就能把笑话里有趣的东西都抹杀了。

I start with the joke line and write backward.

我从笑话开始,倒着写。