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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What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever of where it's going to end up.

我要做的是写一首诗——当然,是一首接一首地写——每首诗都要写,首先,我对它的结局毫无头绪。

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。

Time is not an absolute reality but an aspect of our consciousness.

时间不是绝对的现实,而是我们意识的一个方面。

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。