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 am still interested in the long or serial poem, but have written a few smaller things. I may start sending to journals again in a year or so... that's about it.

我仍然对长诗或系列诗感兴趣,但写了一些较小的东西。我可能会在一年左右的时间里再次给杂志投稿……仅此而已。

Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.

操纵阴影和音调就像创作音乐或诗歌一样。

The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.

对绝对的追求通向四维世界。

Everything is relative except relatives, and they are absolute.

一切都是相对的,除了亲戚,他们是绝对的。