The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.

  • -- Edward Dahlberg 爱德华·达尔伯格

坏诗人是模仿自然的谄媚者。

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The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

诗人的工作不是寻找新的情感,而是运用普通的情感,把它们编成诗歌,表达那些根本不属于实际情感的情感。

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

敲出虚伪,敲入真实。