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You might say a poem is a semicolon, a living semicolon,
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what connects the first line to the last,
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the act of keeping together that whose nature is to fly apart.
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Between the first and last lines there exists—
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a poem—and if it were not for the poem that intervenes,
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the first and last lines of a poem would not speak to each other.

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你可以说一首诗是一个分号，一个活生生的分号，
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是连接第一行和最后一行的东西，是把本性是要飞散的东西保持在一起的行为。
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在第一行和最后一行之间存在着一首诗，
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如果没有这首诗的介入，一首诗的第一行和最后一行就不会进行对话了。
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