A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

-- W. H. Auden 奥登

像诗歌这样的语言艺术是反思性的;它停下来思考。音乐是即时的，它会继续发展。

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But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.

但是，在专为背诵而作的诗歌中，最大的困难，也许也是最重要的困难，是难以达到语言之美，或者更确切地说，难以使语言之美表达出来。

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I haven't appeared on stage in quite a long time and I don't have any immediate plans to do so, but I'm always interested in going back.

我已经很长时间没有登台演出了，也没有任何近期的计划，但我一直对回去很感兴趣。

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Nobody seriously believes in the social philosophies of the immediate past.

没有人真正相信过去的社会哲学。

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A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

诗人是语言对象的专业制造者。

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