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。

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.

因为它将传统等同于偏见,左派发现自己越来越无法用普通人的共同语言与他们交谈。

Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.

我个人认为语法是一种获得美的方法。

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.

诗的正义可能比正义更多。

My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy.

我的散文是浮夸的,没有一点活力。