试译“POETRY 诗是什么” b?y Eleanor Farjeon

POETRY 诗是什么

Eleanor Farjeon

 

 

What is Poetry? Who knows?

诗为何，胡知之？

Not a rose, but the scent of the rose;

隐花形，溢沁香；

Not the sky, but the light in the sky;

非空穹，泻天光；

Not the fly, but the gleam of the fly;

非流萤，秀窈翔；

Not the sea, but the sound of the sea;

非海潮，涛声扬；

Not myself, but what makes me

藏我身，呈心想。

See, hear, and feel something that prose

且观，且听，且思量，诗随意扬。

Cannot: and what it is, who knows.

意顿笔拙又如何：诗为谁，胡知之。