The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

  • -- George Santayana 乔治·桑塔亚纳

诗人的想象力支配现实的程度,说到底,正是衡量他的重要性和尊严的准确尺度。

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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。

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

心胸狭窄、缺乏想象力的小个子男人过着循规蹈矩的生活,沾沾自喜地抵制一切可能会扰乱他们的小天地的变化。

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

这是想象力被事实所迷惑的情况之一。

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

也许人唯一真正的尊严是能够鄙视自己。

By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.

凭一个谎言,一个男人…摧毁了他作为一个男人的尊严。

Poets are born, not paid.

诗人是天生的,不是花钱雇来的。