《人间词话》英译（六）

境非独谓景物也。喜怒哀乐，亦人心中之一境界。故能写真景物、真感情者，谓之有境界。否则谓之无境界。

The [poetic] state is not limited to scenery and objects alone. Pleasure and anger, sorrow and joy are also a sort of ching-chieh in men’s hearts. Therefore those poems which can describe true scenery and objects, true emotions and feelings, can be said to possess ching-chieh. Otherwise they may be said to lack ching-chieh.