A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

  • -- Randall Jarrell 兰德尔·贾雷尔

诗人是这样的人,他一生能在雷雨中脱颖而出,被雷击五六次。

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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.

我希望我们聪明的年轻诗人能记住我对散文和诗歌的朴素定义;也就是说,散文=文字的最佳顺序;-诗歌=最好的语言,最好的顺序。

I think we have played like a playoff team for some time. We can still do better. The key thing right now is to look forward, not behind you.

我想我们已经像季后赛球队一样打了一段时间了。我们还可以做得更好。现在的关键是向前看,而不是向后看。

I was hungry a coupla' times but for the most part I ate every day... I got to go to school for free.

我有时很饿,但大部分时间我每天都吃……我可以免费上学。

However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.

然而,诗歌并不仅仅存在于书本或学校的选集中。