Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

诗人失去了他们本应得到的赞美的一半，如果知道他们小心翼翼地涂抹了什么的话。

-- Edmund Waller 沃勒