A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.

  • -- Diane Ackerman 黛安·艾克曼

诗歌记录的情感和情绪超出了正常的语言,只能拼凑在一起,隐喻性地暗示。

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Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted with a hundred not worth reading. Your true essayist is, in a literary sense, the friend of everybody.

散文家和诗人一样,是天生的而不是后天培养出来的。对于一个值得记住的人来说,这个世界面临着一百种不值得一读的东西。你真正的散文家,在文学意义上,是所有人的朋友。

I don't know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets - the established poets. There was a lot of pretty boring stuff to sort of put up with and to add to, to make something vital from.

我不知道年轻的诗人是否读了很多,你知道,著名的诗人。有很多很无聊的东西要忍受,要添加,要做一些重要的东西。

I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take.

我不使用我的人民的语言。我可以随意处理阿拉伯语不允许我处理的某些主题。

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

诗歌应该有所帮助,不仅要精炼当时的语言,而且要防止它变化太快。

I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.

我喜欢用语言创造有趣的纹理。只要看起来像是一个发现,你就能做到。

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

生活的目的是被越来越大的事情打败。

Work is my salvation. It changes my moods.

工作是我的救星。它改变了我的情绪。