Why can't he write love poetry, secular poetry, instead of this much more disciplined, much more difficult mode of sacred and prophetic poetry ? that he seems already to have wedded himself to?

为什么不写爱情诗，世俗的诗，而是这些,拘束难写的庄严的充满套路的,他似乎长久以来一直都在写的诗呢？

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He's spoken of anthropomorphically, so that we can capture his interaction with human beings. This is the only way, Kaufman says, you can write in any meaningful sense about the interaction between God and humanity. So he has to be anthropomorphized.

上帝像人一样说话，这样我们就能和他交流,这是唯一和上帝对话的方式，你可以从各个方面写下上帝与人类的相互作用,因此上帝必须富有人性。

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