Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.

  • -- John Donne 约翰·唐恩

诗歌是一种伪造的创造物,它创造的东西是不真实的,就好像它们是真实的一样。

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The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.

这个比喻也许是人类最有成效的潜能之一。它的功效接近于魔法,它似乎是上帝创造的一种工具,上帝在创造他的时候就把它遗忘在了他的一个创造物里面。

For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.

对诗人来说,在诗歌中描写诗人是一项危险的实验;在谈到自己的职业时,幽默感和一点善意的冷嘲热讽并没有错。

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status

创造力现在在教育中与读写能力一样重要,我们应该同等对待它

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

诗歌是一面镜子,把扭曲的东西变得美丽。