A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

-- W. H. Auden 奥登

像诗歌这样的语言艺术是反思性的;它停下来思考。音乐是即时的，它会继续发展。

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But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.

但是，在专为背诵而作的诗歌中，最大的困难，也许也是最重要的困难，是难以达到语言之美，或者更确切地说，难以使语言之美表达出来。

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There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

没有礼物。只有不久的将来和不久的过去。

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Acting is very immediate.

行动是非常直接的。

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