See gargantuan hooked fingers Pluck in supreme flesh To smutch supreme littleness.

看庞大的勾形的手指,拖拽那高尚之肉体,将那最微之卑劣也弄脏。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

So, anyway. Okay. But now, that modernist tradition is something that Nabokov owes a lot to, but he always tries to distinguish himself from it. For Nabokov, the highest value is originality.

好吧，不管怎样，但现在，现代主义传统,很大程度得归功于纳博科夫，虽然他一直试图把自己,从中区别开来，对纳博科夫而言，最高尚的价值是独创性。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选