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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I stopped living according to my core values. I knew what I was doing was wrong but thought only about myself and thought I could get away with whatever I wanted to.

我不再按照自己的核心价值观生活。我知道我所做的是错误的,但我只想到我自己,认为我可以逃脱任何我想要的。

To get to be somebody who gets to love what they do for a living, that's so rare, and so there must be some kind of price you have to pay.

成为一个热爱自己工作的人,这是非常罕见的,所以你必须付出一定的代价。

When someone holds a knife to your throat it's easy to be scared. It's not hard to imagine what it would be like.

当有人拿刀抵着你的喉咙时,你很容易感到害怕。不难想象那会是什么样子。

God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

上帝——一种我们自以为已经治愈的疾病,因为现在没有人死于它。

I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence.

我选择爱这一次 用我所有的智慧。

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

诗歌:以最好的顺序写出最好的文字。