It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.

  • -- Rita Dove 丽塔·达夫

这是亲密和公众的结合,我发现成为桂冠诗人是如此令人兴奋。

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The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

诗人的工作不是寻找新的情感,而是运用普通的情感,把它们编成诗歌,表达那些根本不属于实际情感的情感。

I wasn't losing my focus but I was getting tired of focusing. What I was focusing on was becoming too routine, too ritual, not something that was interesting, new and exciting.

我并没有失去我的注意力,但是我已经厌倦了集中注意力。我所关注的是变得过于例行公事,过于例行公事,而不是一些有趣、新鲜和令人兴奋的东西。

It is amazing how the public steadfastly refuse to attend the third day of a match when so often the last day produces the best and most exciting cricket.

令人惊讶的是,当比赛的最后一天往往能产出最好、最令人兴奋的板球时,公众却坚决拒绝参加比赛的第三天。

We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society.

我们对全能的法律在形成公众舆论、在给社会大众以基调和特征方面是如何发挥作用几乎一无所知。

We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.

我们都有私人病痛。麻烦制造者是那些需要公共治疗其私人疾患的人。

To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.

要了解一个人,就去了解他是如何花钱的。