谢默斯·希尼(Seamus Heamey),爱尔兰诗人,1995年的诺贝尔文学奖获得者。当一个中国学者问他面对历史中的战争与杀戮和个人的内心挣扎与痛楚时在写作上如何达到平衡时,他这么说道:“在英语中,我想到一个令我满意的回答,但我无法用汉语来表达,因为它依靠英语中的一个双关词……”我无意把这段精彩的描述展开,我只是想以这个诗人在文化差异下表达的无奈来谈下面的这个展览。 Seamus Heamey, Irish poet, winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. When a Chinese scholar asked him how to balance his writing in the face of war and killings in history and personal inner struggles and pains, he said: “In English, I thought of a satisfactory answer, but I can not express it in Chinese, because it relies on a punctuation in English ... ”I did not intend to expand this wonderful description. I just wanted to talk about the exhibition under the poet’s helplessness expressed under cultural differences.