We've got to figure out somehow how it is that consciousness is never completely uninhibited, never completely does and says what it wants to say.

我们无论如何都应找出,为什么意识永远不能完全不受拘束，永远不能完全表达它想表达的东西。

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Why can't he write love poetry, secular poetry, instead of this much more disciplined, much more difficult mode of sacred and prophetic poetry ? that he seems already to have wedded himself to?

为什么不写爱情诗，世俗的诗，而是这些,拘束难写的庄严的充满套路的,他似乎长久以来一直都在写的诗呢？

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