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.

  • -- Nicholas Mosley 莫斯利

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。

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Like a poem poorly written we are verses out of rhythm, couplets out of rhyme in syncopated time.

就像一首写得不好的诗,我们是不合韵律的诗句,不合韵律的对联。

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.

我是宇宙的主人,却不是我自己,我是唯一反抗我绝对权力的人。

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

我从来没有写过一首我知道结局的诗。写诗就是发现。

Everything is relative except relatives, and they are absolute.

一切都是相对的,除了亲戚,他们是绝对的。