八十年代初,还是本科生的我为了筹办诗社,邀请某位老诗人当顾问。虽然老诗人并不非常有名,但我因为有求于他而对他满口奉承之言。老诗人把这些奉承全部收下了,说话的口气变得非常豪迈。我发现他自我感觉的过分良好与他在诗坛的实际地位很不相称——仅仅是位普通诗人的他常常宣称自已是世界级的伟大诗人。当时我大惑不解:老诗人神经正常,在日常生活中谦和而朴素,为何会对自己的诗歌成就做出如此不切合实际的评价呢?答案很快就找到了:几乎所有围绕着老诗人的人都出于各种考虑而赞美 In the early 1980s, as an undergraduate, I invited an old poet to be a counselor in preparation for a poetry club. Although the old poet is not very famous, I am flattering with him for seeking him. The old poet took all these flattery, the tone of his speech became very heroic. I find that his excessively good sense of his own self is quite incompatible with his actual status in the poetry world - he is often the only ordinary poet who claims to be himself a world-class great poet. At that time, I was puzzled: the old poets were normal, modest and simple in their daily lives, and why they made such an unrealistic assessment of their own poetic achievements? The answer was quickly found: almost all the old poets People praise for all kinds of considerations