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.

  • -- Socrates 苏格拉底

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。

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Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.

我们知道,诗人是非常敏感的人,在我看来,他们最敏感的事情之一就是钱。

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

诗人都是爱的人,他们感受伟大的真理,并把它们说出来;真理的真理就是爱。

Something is developing in the world by means of us, perhaps at our own expense.

世界上有些东西是通过我们自己发展起来的,也许是以我们自己为代价的。

Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

面对现实的本来面目,而不是你想要的样子。