Passions are liken’d best to floods and streams,
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb;　
So, when affection yields discourse, it seems
The bottom is but shallow whence they come.
They that are rich in words, in words discover
That they are poor in that which makes a lover.

Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618)/England

沈默的戀人

熱情恰似洪水與溪流，
淺處聲潺潺，深處卻默默無語；
因此，當愛情化為言語時，彷若
情來自淺處，嘈嘈擾擾。
談情說愛的人，在言語中發現
他們並非情到深處的戀人。