The aim of writing poetry is to enable readers a little better to enjoy life or a little better to endure it.

  • -- W. H. Auden 奥登

写诗的目的是让读者更好地享受生活或更好地忍受生活。

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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。

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

听;隔壁的宇宙好极了:我们走吧。