It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.

  • -- Eugenio Montale 蒙塔莱

诗性语言对散文语言的影响可以看作是一种决定性的鞭策。

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Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic term, perhaps one with a nuance that flatters my readership's exquisite sensitivity.

有时我知道一个词的意思,但我已经厌倦了它,觉得需要一个不熟悉的,特别精确或诗意的词,也许一个细微的差别,以迎合我的读者细腻的敏感性。

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

一个作家边写边写,就像他犯了相反的错误一样,应该受到谴责;因为这给他所说的话带来了一种迂腐的效果,同时也使他的话难以理解。

The very best moment of writing 'Swamplandia!' was when I figured out what the ending should be. And even though I changed the prose of it, that realization was an ice cube melting in my chest.

写“沼泽地!”当我知道结局应该是什么时候。尽管我改变了文章的风格,但那种感觉就像一块冰块在我的胸膛里融化。

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

诗歌应该有所帮助,不仅要精炼当时的语言,而且要防止它变化太快。

I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.

我写了很多散文。我只是还没有发表。

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.

诗的正义可能比正义更多。