The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

  • -- Walt Whitman 沃尔特惠特曼

一个诗人的证明是,他的祖国对他的吸收就像他对祖国的吸收一样深情。

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We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

我们称失去父亲的人为孤儿;一个失去妻子的鳏夫。但是,这个人知道失去朋友的巨大痛苦,我们用什么名字称呼他呢?在这里,每一种语言都是沉默的,在无能为力中保持着平静。

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

成为无名小卒 在这个世界上 哪一个日夜尽其所能让你喜欢 每个人都意味着打一场最艰苦的战斗 任何人都可以战斗,而且永不停止。

I think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind.

我认为他们把赫伯定为罪犯的方式是错误的。除了吸烟还有很多其他用途。对人类有益。

I know that I haven't powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates.

我知道我没有足够的能力把自己分成挣钱的人和创造的人。

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

如果有什么事是一个人能做好的,我说让他去做。给他一个机会。

The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.

诗人不知道——通常他永远也不会知道——他真正为谁写作。

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

如果诗人追求道德目标,他的诗歌力量就会减弱。

I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.

我不认为奥登很喜欢我的诗,他很圣公会教徒。