Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

  • -- A. R. Ammons 安蒙斯

每隔五百年左右,就会出现一篇关于诗歌的摘要,我们无法想象没有它的生活。

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A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction.

一个不能想象未来的人,就是一个不能考虑自己行为结果的人。一些人因此陷入瘫痪,无所作为。

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

我们希望什么,我们欣然相信什么,我们自己怎么想,我们想象别人也怎么想。

There is darkness in light, there is pain in joy, and there are thorns on the rose.

光明中有黑暗,欢乐中有痛苦,玫瑰上有刺。

It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible.

当音乐家真的很难谋生。这几乎是不可能的。

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

诗歌是拨动心弦的音乐。

Yes, living voices in a living language, so it seemed to us.

是的,用一种活生生的语言发出活生生的声音,在我们看来是这样。