The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
过去是一个陌生的国度;那里的人做事方式不同。
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
在贝鲁特的迷宫中,我们既找到了过去,也找到了未来。
The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker.