But there is no book I know of
on the subject of how poems begin.

How can the origin be traced when there is no form or shape that precedes it to trace?

It is exactly like tracing the moment of the big bang—
we can go back to a nanosecond before the beginning,
before the universe burst into being,

but we can’t go back to the precise beginning
because that would precede knowledge,

and we can’t “know” anything before “knowing” itself was born.

但据我所知，没有一本关于诗歌起源的书。
在没有任何之前的形式或形状可供追踪的情况下，

如何能追踪到起源？
这就像追踪大爆炸的时刻一样--

我们可以追溯到开始前的一纳秒，
在宇宙迸发之前，

但我们不能追溯到如此精确的开始，
因为那会先于知识，

因为在 "知识 "本身诞生之前，我们无法 "知道 "任何东西。