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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Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.

可能是受哮喘的影响,我很早就开始阅读和写作,从九岁开始我的文学创作主要是诗歌和戏剧。

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。

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

她想,诗歌不是用来分析的;它的意义在于无理由地激励,无理解地触摸。

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。

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

所有的激情都使我们犯错误;爱让我们做出最荒唐的事。