The thought that prompted and was conveyed in a caress would only lose to be set down in words—ay, although Shakespeare himself should be the scribe.
引发一次爱抚、又由它传达的心意,一旦写成文字便会有所损失——即便由莎士比亚亲自执笔也是如此。
— Robert Louis Stevenson · Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers · Truth of Intercourse —