Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.

  • -- Thom Gunn 冈恩

深厚的感情不适合写好诗。用语言的方法会有一点帮助。

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So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us.

我的很多诗歌都是从一些我能用视觉来描述的东西开始的,比如思考距离,思考生命是如何开始的,以及什么在注视着我们。

A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.

诗人的使命是让文字比平常发挥更大的作用,使它们在不止一个层面上发挥作用。