It is the essence of poetry to spring, like the rainbow daughter of Wonder, from the invisible, to abolish the past, and refuse all history.
诗的本质,是像惊奇所生的彩虹之女,从无形中跃出,消解过去,拒绝一切历史。
— Ralph Waldo Emerson · Essays · Shakspeare; or, the Poet —
It is the essence of poetry to spring, like the rainbow daughter of Wonder, from the invisible, to abolish the past, and refuse all history.
诗的本质,是像惊奇所生的彩虹之女,从无形中跃出,消解过去,拒绝一切历史。