Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

诗歌就像一个笑话。如果你在一个笑话的结尾把一个单词拼错了，你就失去了整件事。

-- W. S. Merwin 默文