Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric; of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry.

  • -- William Butler Yeats 叶芝

在与他人的冲突中,我们夸夸其谈;在我们与自己的冲突中,我们创造了诗歌。

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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

我断定,不是智慧使诗人能够写诗,而是一种本能或灵感,就像你在预言家和先知身上看到的那样,他们传达出所有崇高的信息,却一点也不知道它们的意思。

Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.

除了在课堂上实际阅读大量的诗歌,我建议你做两件事:第一,在教授你所能教授的一切的同时,不去管它,要让学生知道诗歌是一种不同于逻辑阐述的话语模式。

Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.

诗人说过,有孩子的原因是为了让自己长生不老。永生?现在我有五个孩子了,我唯一的希望就是在我死之前他们都离开家。

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

一粒诗足以使一个世纪的生命绽放。