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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Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.

也许所有对诗歌的关注都带来了某种价值,尽管这种关注更多的是指向较小的价值,而不是较大的价值。

It is natural to try to understand one's own time and to seek to analyse the forces that move it.

试图了解自己的时间,并试图分析推动时间的力量,这是很自然的。

I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.

我不为诗歌而活。我比任何人都活得久。

I could eat gazpacho three times a day.

我可以一天吃三次西班牙凉菜汤。