For the purposes of poetry a convincing impossibility is preferable to an unconvincing possibility ; and if men such as zeuxis depicted be impossible , the answer is that it is better they should be like that , as the artist ought to improve on his model 对于诗的目的而言，可信的不可能比不可信的可能更好，如果像宙克西斯那样写实地刻画出来的人在现实中不可能有，那么更好的选择是让他们像应该是的那样，画家应该改进他的模特。
