Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

  • -- Thomas Babington Macaulay 麦考莱

也许没有人可以成为一个诗人,甚至享受诗歌,没有一定的不健全的头脑。

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The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.

智力成熟的人对所有真实的个性都漠不关心,因为人际关系和反应都是由它产生的,不能用逻辑运算来穷尽。

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

世界上没有一件事是无趣的;唯一能存在的就是一个不感兴趣的人。

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

我的诗里永远有劳动人民,因为我和他们一起长大,我是一个有记忆的诗人。

How do I feel about being a star now? Well I still try to live life and enjoy what I am doing.

我现在是明星感觉如何?我仍然试着生活,享受我所做的。

Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.

对死亡的恐惧从来没有在我的意识中发挥过很大的作用——也许是对我缺乏想象力。

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

伟大的诗歌总是由努力超越自己能力的人写出来的。

Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.

也许激怒哲学家比顺从他们更有价值。

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

我爱上了社会工作,这就是我作为一个诗人的下场。

It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

只有童心才能找到天国。

If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.

如果诗人是现实主义者,他们就不会是诗人。

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

早一点记住这一点:我们永远不会长大。

I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.

我享受空白页的自由。