Not every poem is finished—
one poem is abandoned, another catches fire and is carried away by the wind,
which may be an ending, but it is the ending of a poem without an end.

且并非每首诗都有个结局--
有被遗弃的诗，又有一首着了火，又被风捎了去，
有可能是一个结局，但这又可能是一首没有结局的诗的终。

Paul Valéry, the French poet and thinker,
once said that no poem is ever ended, that every poem is merely abandoned.

法国诗人、思想家，保罗-瓦莱里（Paul Valéry）曾经说道，“每首诗歌从未有过结局，都只是被遗弃了”。

This saying is also attributed to Stéphane Mallarmé,
for where quotations begin is in a cloud.

这句话也归功于斯特凡-马拉美（Stéphane Mallarmé），因为引文都始于云雾中。