First， it comes from the brilliance of Su Tungpo’s own mind， stamped upon every line he wrote， like the black luster of ink in the two original bamboo paintings by Su that I have seen， which still glistens as if it were applied only an hour ago.
第一，是由于苏东坡本人心智上才华的卓越，深深印在他写的每一行诗上，正如我所看见的他那两幅墨竹上那乌黑的宝墨之光，时至今日，依然闪耀照人，就犹如他蘸笔挥毫是在顷刻之前一样。
拓展：
宁可食无肉，不可居无竹。
无肉令人瘦，无竹令人俗。
人瘦尚可肥，士俗不可医。
旁人笑此言，似高还似痴。
若对此君仍大嚼，世间那有扬州鹤？
——苏轼《於潜僧绿筠轩》
「此君」用典注释：
王徽之酷爱竹子，有一次借住在朋友家，立即命人来种竹，人问其故，徽之说：“何可一日无此君。”在本诗中，此君即是竹子。
拓展：中国画里的墨色
墨分五色，常指焦、浓、重、淡、清，再加干湿二重。
② This is a curious phenomenon， as in the case of Shakespeare， too. The vitality of Shakespeare’s lines， coming straight from a sensitive and generous mind， remains fresh today. In spite of the labors of generations of research scholars， we still know extremely little about his external life; yet we feel some four hundred years after his death that we know the recesses of his mind by the power of emotion he injects into his writing.
这是天地间一大奇迹，在莎士比亚的创作上，亦复如此。莎翁诗句的遒健，是来自诗人敏感的天性与开阔豁达的胸襟，至今依然清新如故。纵然有后代学者的钻研考证，我们对莎士比亚的生活所知者仍极稀少；可是在他去世四百年之后，由于他作品中感情的力量，我们却知道了他的心灵深处。