Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem.

  • -- Paul Celan 保罗·策兰

只有真正的手才能写出真正的诗。我看不出握手和诗歌有什么本质区别。

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On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.

总的来说,对于那些进入抽象世界——艺术、哲学或学问——的人来说,年龄来得更温柔一些。在这些领域里,岁月很少被注意到,年轻人和老年人可以在暗淡而真实的光线中相遇。

I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.

我不能告诉你一首诗从何而来,它是什么,它是干什么用的,别人也不能告诉你。我不能告诉你的原因是,一首诗的目的是超越叙述,通过燃烧得到认可。

To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative.

说一首诗是绝对的就等于什么也没说,因为墨迹是绝对的。然而,你把你喜欢的放进它。所以它变得完全相对。

My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible.

我的目的是使我的叙述尽可能真实。