To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative.

  • -- Nicholas Mosley 莫斯利

说一首诗是绝对的就等于什么也没说,因为墨迹是绝对的。然而,你把你喜欢的放进它。所以它变得完全相对。

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I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children.

我认为,在成年人之间的自愿关系(人们可能喜欢或不喜欢这种关系)和那些把自己的身体强加于孩子或滥用职权强加于孩子的人之间,存在着绝对的、深刻的鸿沟。

If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.

如果一首诗每次都是新的,那么它必然是一种发现的行为,一个偶然的机会,一个可能导致实现或灾难的机会。

The Universe is the periodical manifestation of this unknown Absolute Essence.

宇宙是这种未知的绝对本质的周期性表现。

For me, a poem is an opportunity to kind of interrogate myself a little bit.

对我来说,诗歌是一种自我反省的机会。