我们会长大成熟得不再把大多数诗当成一回事,并活得比它们长久,如同我们会长大成熟得超越大多数人类激情,并活得比它们长久:但丁的《神曲》是那样一些诗之一,我们只能希望在生命终点朝着它长大成熟。——T.S.艾略特在20世纪50年代,你并不需要拥有什么特别的文学知识,就能够知道艾略特是道路、真理、光,知道除非你找到他,否则你根本就未踏入诗歌的王国在我开始朝着T.S.艾略特长大成熟时,我已来到自己人生的中途,但不用说,这个 We grow older and mature and cease to take most of our poems as one thing and live longer than they are, as we grow and mature to surpass most human passion and live longer than them: Dante’s Divine Comedy, It is one of those poems, and we can only hope to grow toward it at the end of life. - TS Eliot In the 1950s, you did not need to have any particular literary knowledge to know that Eliot was the way, the truth, the light, and that unless you found him, you did not step into poetry When I began to grow toward TS Eliot, I had come halfway through my life, but needless to say that this