Of course in all cases they remain remarkably distinct,
because the words belong to completely different poems.

当然,在所有情况下,它们仍然非常不同,因为这些词属于完全不同的诗。



And I began to realize, reading these first and last lines,
that there are not only the first and
last lines of the lifelong sentence we each speak
but also the first and last lines of the
long piece of language delivered to use by others,
by those we listen to.

我开始意识到,在阅读这些第一行和最后一行时,
不只有我们每个人人生中所说的第一句话和最后一句话,
而且还有由其他人、由我们所听说的人传递给
我们使用的长篇语言的第一句和最后一句。