Yeats said that the voices that he communicated with on the other side gave him "metaphors for poetry."

叶芝说,来自异界的和他讲话的声音,给了他诗的隐喻“

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So it is always the case that I can only know what I know if it's a question of being communicated with, having something rendered intelligible for me, negatively.

所以我们总是这样地认识事物,我们和人交流时，总是被动地认识符号。

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