Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

诗是一把永不拔出鞘的闪电之剑，它吞掉了装它的鞘。

-- Percy Bysshe Shelley 珀西·比西·雪莱