It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.

It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.

可以说，诗歌在某种程度上就像冰山:只有大约三分之一的体积出现在书页表面。

-- Howard Nemerov 霍华德·内梅罗夫