A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

  • -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge 柯勒律治

诗人不应该扒窃自然的衣袋。让他借钱吧,借了就借,借了就借,借了就借,借了就还。准确地审视自然,但要从回忆中写作,更要相信想象力,而不是记忆。

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A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.

诗歌记录的情感和情绪超出了正常的语言,只能拼凑在一起,隐喻性地暗示。

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.

诗人不画。他们解开自己的笔迹,然后重新绑起来,但方式不同。