If it ain't a pleasure, it ain't a poem.

  • -- William Carlos Williams 威廉·卡洛斯·威廉姆斯

如果这不是一种乐趣,那就不是一首诗。

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Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

诗歌的优点是能够在一半的时间里说两倍于散文的话,缺点是,如果你没有把全部的注意力放在诗歌上,那么你似乎在两倍的时间里说了一半的话。

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers

诗歌就像一只鸟,它无视一切边界