When I told Mr. Angel about the lifelong sentence,
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he said: “That’s a lot of semicolons!” he is absolutely right;
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the sentence would be unwieldy and awkward and resemble the novel of a savant,
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but the next time you use a semicolon
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(which, by the way, is the least-used mark of punctuation in all of poetry)
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you should stop and be thankful that there exists this little thing,
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invented by a human being—an Italian as a matter of fact—
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that allows us to go on and keep on connecting speech that for all apparent purposes is unrelated.

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当我告诉安吉尔先生关于一些终生的句子时，
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他说。"那有好多分号啊！"
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他说得很对；
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这个句子会很不方便，十分笨拙，就像野人的小说，
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但下次你使用分号时（顺便说一下，分号是所有诗歌中最少使用的标点符号），
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你应该停下来，感谢存在这个小东西，由人类--
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事实上是意大利人--发明的，让我们能够继续下去，继续连接那些表面上毫无关联的语音。
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