Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

  • -- Alfred Edward Housman 豪斯曼

即使诗歌有一个意义,就像它通常的意义一样,把它描绘出来也是不明智的。完美的理解有时几乎会扼杀快乐。

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If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'

如果我们问一个模糊的问题,比如,“什么是诗歌?”我们希望得到一个模糊的答案,比如,“诗歌是文字的音乐”,或者“诗歌是对无序的语言纠正”。

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.

我想不出诗歌改变世界的例子,但它们改变了人们对世界现状的理解。