While writing, he thought of its natural beauty and then of the words of Count de Buffon.

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So when I'm writing the poem, when the poem is writing itself through me, at its best, I'm reading it; it is reading me.

所以，我在写诗时，或者说，当诗在通过我创造自己时，我在读诗，诗也在读我。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

We have a strained image of the composition of the poem at its very outset and we have an image of someone writing as if he were participating in a race.

如果一开始我们就对诗歌的创作有一种不友善的印象,那么我们就会对诗人有一种印象,就好像他正在参加一场竞赛。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Next time, we're turning to a very different kind of writing, a writing equally preoccupied with its relationship to the world, to life, but very differently approaching that problem.

下次，我们将关注一部完全不同的,作品，一部同样让人着迷的，与生活和世界以完全不同的,方式产生关联的作品。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

They are not concerned about interpretation because to them, good writing is precisely writing that's clear, writing that doesn't need to be interpreted but has precisely as its virtue its transparency of meaning.

他们不关注解读问题,因为对他们而言，一部好的作品必须清楚明白，正因为它表意清楚,所以不需要解读。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选