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The vanity of translation; it were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its colour and odour, as seek to transfuse from one language to another the creations of a poet. The plant must spring again from its seed, or it will bear no flower.
翻译的虚荣心;把紫罗兰放在坩埚里,你会发现它的颜色和气味的形式原则,这是明智的,正如把诗人的创作从一种语言注入另一种语言一样。植物必须从种子中重新发芽,否则就不会开花。