赵翼·《论诗·其一》英译

满眼生机转化钧，天工人巧日争新。

预支五百年新意，到了千年又觉陈。

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On Poetry

Chao Yi

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The world is alive with inspiration to a potter who turns the wheel.

By nature’s doing and human skill, too, one strives daily for something new.

I predict, though, a new thought that holds for five hundred years

Will become, in another five hundred, hackneyed and stale.