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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

  • -- William Butler Yeats 叶芝

我们从与别人的争吵中提炼出来的，是修辞，而从与自己的争吵中提炼出来的，是诗歌。

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Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

雄辩不能很好地代替行动，我们只相信雄辩。如果我们真的想成为一个伟大的国家，我们不能光说不练;我们必须行动起来。

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Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

诗歌似乎特别像它自己。诗歌不像，它是内心生活的最里层。

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I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.

我是个平实的人，比较不关心也不太懂修辞。

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There's nothing worse than a person looking for a quarrel.

没有什么比找人吵架更糟糕的了。

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Mine and thine are the sources of all quarrels.

我和你是一切争吵的根源。

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The cliche is dead poetry.

陈词滥调已经过时了。

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