梦与诗
胡适
都是平常经验,
都是平常影象,
偶然涌到梦中来,
变幻出多少新奇花样。
都是平常情感,
都是平常言语,
偶然碰着个诗人,
变幻出多少新奇诗句。
醉过才知酒浓,
爱过才知情重——
你不能做我的诗,
正如我不能做你的梦。
Dream and Verse
Hu Shi
Common as an experience may seem,
Uncommon it emerges in a dream.
An ordinary image nearby
May turn fantastic in a dreaming eye,
What we feel from day to day,
What to each other we would say,
A poet may transform it into wine
Or intoxicating poetic line.
From wine a drinker cannot part,
Nor can a lover from his sweetheart.
You cannot write my poetic line,
Nor can I make your dream mine.