To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely ordered variety on the chords of emotion—a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.

成为诗人，就是拥有敏锐到能察觉一切细微特质、又极易感受的灵魂；洞察如一只手，以精妙有序的变化拨动情感的琴弦——在这样的灵魂里，认识瞬间化为感受，感受又闪现为新的认识能力。