You should always be trying to write a poem you are unable to write, a poem you lack the technique, the language, the courage to achieve. Otherwise you're merely imitating yourself, going nowhere, because that's always easiest

  • -- John Berryman 约翰·贝里曼

你应该一直尝试写一首你写不出来的诗,一首你缺乏技巧、语言、勇气去实现的诗。否则你只是在模仿自己,什么都不做,因为这总是最简单的

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What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever of where it's going to end up.

我要做的是写一首诗——当然,是一首接一首地写——每首诗都要写,首先,我对它的结局毫无头绪。

I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read and reread a poem so many times that it simply drills itself into your head.

我认为诗歌是唯一一个你喜欢的作家能真正影响你的领域,因为你读了又读了那么多遍一首诗,以至于它会在你的脑海中根深蒂固。