That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.

  • -- Galway Kinnell 金内尔

诗歌就是这样:当你无法理解它时,它显得深奥;当你理解它时,它只是荒谬。

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I wouldn't even have braces on my teeth. I think they are horrible and this idea that everyone should conform and be perfect is ridiculous.

我连牙套都没有。我认为他们是可怕的,每个人都应该遵守和完美的想法是荒谬的。

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

解释使我们从惊讶中分离出来,而惊讶是通向不可理解事物的唯一途径。

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?

为什么我从来没有走过的树下,却有巨大而优美的思想落在我的身上?

For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: it might have been.

因为在所有悲伤的语言或文字中,最悲伤的是:它可能是。

From the sublime to the ridiculous there is but one step.

从崇高到荒谬只有一步之遥。