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。

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It looks like a leaf. It is nature in its aesthetic form as imitation of itself, life as an imitation of life.

它看起来像一片树叶，它是艺术,化的自然，模仿着它自己，用生命模仿生命。

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Literary theory, as I say, is skeptical about the foundations of its subject matter and also, in many cases, about the foundations of what it itself is doing.

就像我说的，文学理论，是对创作题材的怀疑,在很多情况下，也是对自身所做之事的基础的怀疑。

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