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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From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning.

从灵感的剧痛和思想的漩涡中,诗人也许终于能够达到并传达出正确的词语和意义的混合。

The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

原因只能是:英雄主义诗歌取决于一个英雄时代,一个时代之所以成为英雄,是因为它是什么,而不是因为它做了什么。

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

很多人错过了他们那份快乐,不是因为他们从未找到过,而是因为他们没有停下来享受它。

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

不要为独生子担心,他永远不会想到失败。

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。

Whoever doesn't live in poetry cannot survive here on earth.

谁不活在诗歌里,谁就不能活在这个世界上。

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

奴隶是等待有人来解放他的人。

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

生命-保存身体免于腐烂的精神腌黄瓜。