什麼是詩?

從一粒石.............. 記不起誰說： 詩人從從一粒石看透這世界。 甚麼是詩？ 讓路我們嘗試從另一個角度看： Jorge Luis Borges(詩人/文學評論家) 在"論詩" 裡寫： The aesthetic event is something as evident, as immediate, as indefinable as love, the taste of fruit, of water. We feel poetry as we feel the closeness of a woman, or as we feel a mountain or a bay. If we feel it immediately, why dilute it with other words, which no doubt will be weaker than our feelings? 詩就是這樣子. There are people who barely feel poetry, and they are generally dedicated to teaching it......Jorge Luis Borges...

William Blake "Auguries of Innocence" To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour 從一粒沙看一個世界 一朵野花是一個宇宙 你的手心掌握著無限 一個小時是一個永恆 興起亂譯，勿介意．我很喜歡這詩

雲起： 謝謝賜教。 我十分喜歡您的名字。

不要客氣 我不懂寫詩，只能賞詩。 請繼續。

Blake If I remember correctly, that should be "and beauty in a wild flower". Interestingly, replacing “beauty” by “heaven” also makes sense because, apart from love, beauty, I think, is another way to heaven. P.S. I also like Blake very much. This particular poem has a Buddhist taste (especially, a Zen taste).

在寫詩、看詩、認識詩之前，先學懂：詩沒有好、不好，很難介定。我們應該學懂接受不同的詩，明白的，不明白的，有意思的，無意思的；美麗的，鬆散的…… 看完後，你自然得出一個結論，並且解答到詩是甚麼這個問題了。 人人的答案可以不同啊！

觀千劍然後識器是也﹖But there is still a “normative” question about what “standard” according to which a poem can be judged to be good or bad.