Then there are those who managed to cut the Gordian knot of originality altogether, such as the poet Richard Cambridge, who stated, "it is certain that we are the first Europeans to have founded their taste."
也有人暫時撇開糾纏不清的原創性，爭的只是歐洲雞首：「不管人們對於中國園林的說法是真是假，我們英國人在歐洲首先建立了這種品味，卻是千真萬確的事實」，詩人康橋寫道。