We have no longer in any country a literature as great as the literature of the old world, and that is because the newspapers, all kinds of second-rate books, the preoccupation of men with all kinds of practical changes, have driven the living imagination out of this world.
在任何国家都不再有像古时候一样伟大的文学作品了，市面上充斥着报纸和各种二流书籍，人们都忙着去应对这个不断变化的现实社会，从而榨干了生动的想象力。

——W. B. Yeats, First Principles
——叶芝