Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

  • -- W. S. Merwin 默文

诗歌就像一个笑话。如果你在一个笑话的结尾把一个单词拼错了,你就失去了整件事。

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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

对我来说,诗歌本身就是极大的奖赏;它使我养成了一种习惯,那就是希望在所有遇见和围绕着我的事物中发现美好和美丽。

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

树林里分出两条路,而我——我选择了人迹罕至的那条路,这使一切都不同了。

After a while, a joke, if you say it too much, just becomes contrived, or fake-sounding.

过了一段时间,一个笑话,如果你说得太多,就会变得做作,或者听起来很假。

Jest with your equals.

和你的同龄人开玩笑。