For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.

  • -- Edward Dowden 道登

对诗人来说,在诗歌中描写诗人是一项危险的实验;在谈到自己的职业时,幽默感和一点善意的冷嘲热讽并没有错。

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With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.

有好几种不同的诗歌可供选择,一个人会决定他最喜欢做一个史诗诗人,他会有意识地下定决心,开始写一首史诗。

Here they have no time for the fine graces of poetry, unless it freely grows in deep compulsion, like water in the well, woven into the texture of the soil in a strong pattern.

在这里,他们没有时间欣赏诗歌的优美之处,除非诗歌像井里的水一样,在深沉的冲动中自由地生长,以强烈的形式编织进泥土的质地中。

You will have to experiment and try things out for yourself and you will not be sure of what you are doing. That's all right, you are feeling your way into the thing.

你将不得不自己去试验和尝试,你将不确定你在做什么。没关系,你是在摸索。

Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.

事实上,这种关于理论和实验之间关系的认识论理论与天真证伪主义的认识论理论有很大的不同。