Paul Valéry also described his perception of first lines so vividly, and to my mind so accurately,
that i have never forgotten it: the opening line of a poem, he said,
is like finding a fruit on the ground, a piece of fallen fruit you have never seen before,
and the poet’s task is to create the tree from which such a fruit would fall.

保罗-瓦莱里十分形象的描述了他对于第一行诗的看法，在我看来是如此的准确，使我一直记忆犹新：
他说，一首诗的开篇就像你在地上发现了一颗果子，一颗你见所未见，闻所未闻的落果，
而诗人的任务就是创造出这样一颗会掉下新奇果实的树。

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