我在年轻时就喜爱读外国诗。当时(我指的是40年代)我认为读外国诗最好从原文来读,而当时我勉强能使用的外语只有英语和世界语。我读的大多是拜伦、惠特曼等19世纪的英美诗人。对我来说,像泰戈尔、卡尔·桑德堡等已经是很新的诗人了。也从世界语读了东欧一些国家的诗人的作品。当时,东欧还是一个 I loved reading foreign poems when I was young. At that time (I refer to the 1940s) I thought it would be best to read foreign poems from the source text, but only English and Esperanto languages ​​that I could barely use at the time. Most of the books I read were 19th Century British and American poets such as Byron and Whitman. For me, such as Tagore, Carl Söderburg, etc. are already very new poets. Also read from Esperanto poets of some Eastern European countries. At that time, Eastern Europe was still one