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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Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

真理永远是绝对的,但意见是通过观众的情绪、血液和性情过滤出来的真理。

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

诗人是夜莺,他坐在黑暗中,用甜美的歌声为自己的孤独歌唱。

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

也许没有人可以成为一个诗人,甚至享受诗歌,没有一定的不健全的头脑。

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

人是一种不单单依靠食物生存的生物,主要依靠口头禅生存。

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

诗人所讲的伟大而明智的事情,他们自己也不明白。

Even this late it happens: the coming of love, the coming of light.

即使是这么晚才发生: 爱的到来,光明的到来。

The English language is a work in progress. Have fun with it.

英语是一项正在进行的工作。玩得开心。

Work is my salvation. It changes my moods.

工作是我的救星。它改变了我的情绪。