我对现代诗所知甚少。

I had little acquaintance with modern poetry.

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我曾经被感动得写了几行诗。

I have been moved to write a few lines of verse.

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那时我完全不知道他的诗。

I was then totally unacquainted with his poems.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

And this poem seemed like one you might find and be able to read yourself, without me there to explain it.

而这首诗似乎是一首,你们自己就可以读懂的，不用我多做解释的诗。

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So, The Norton Anthology, this book, this heavy book, I order it as a way to, well, reduce your expenses.

叫《一首诗的心路历程》，就在这本诺顿诗集里，我自己订购了一本，这样可以减少你们的花费。

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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。

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