No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

  • -- Horace 贺拉斯

饮水者所作的诗,没有一句能长久,也不能长久。

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They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it.

他们需要学习诗歌。他们不需要学习诗歌。他们不需要被告知如何解读诗歌。他们不需要被告知如何理解诗歌。他们需要学习。

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

在我看来,如果你或我必须在两种思想或行动之间做出选择,我们应该记住我们的死亡,并努力活着,使我们的死亡不会给世界带来快乐。

The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.

诗歌的行为包括突然发现一个想法分裂成许多相同的主题并将它们组合起来;他们押韵。

Pleasure may come from illusion but happiness can come only of reality.

快乐可能来自幻想,但幸福只能来自现实。