Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

  • -- Carl Sandburg 卡尔·桑德伯格

诗歌是生活在陆地上的海洋动物想要在空中飞翔的日记。诗歌是对音节的探索,旨在冲破未知和不可知的障碍。诗歌是一种虚幻的剧本,讲述彩虹是如何形成的,为什么会消失。

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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.

一知半解是件危险的事;喝得深一点,否则就尝不到皮埃尔泉水的味道;在那里,浅浅的烈性酒使我们的大脑陶醉,喝得酩酊大醉使我们再次清醒过来。

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.

这些诗,连同它们所有的残酷、怀疑和困惑,都是为了人类的爱和赞美上帝而写的,如果它们不是,我将是一个该死的傻瓜。