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However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.
然而，如果一首诗可以被简化成一个散文句子，它就不会有太多。
— James Schuyler 詹姆斯·斯凯勒
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更多好句 ↗By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
我所说的史诗的一般过程，指的是这种艺术形式不断地对其产生的社会的深刻需求作出反应的方式。
Lascelles Abercrombie
拉斯莱斯·阿伯克龙比
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
诗歌是强烈情感的自然流露，它源于平静中回忆的情感。
William Wordsworth
威廉·华兹华斯
Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
听;隔壁的宇宙好极了:我们走吧。
E. E. Cummings
E·E·卡明斯
Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.''
因为大多数的我 拒绝你们中的大多数， 辩论很快就结束了，我们 分裂。”
Philip Larkin
菲利普·拉金
Music is the universal language of mankind.
音乐是人类的通用语言。
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
朗费罗
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
我认为，我们现代文化的一个可能定义是，我们十分之九的知识分子不会读诗。
Randall Jarrell
兰德尔·贾雷尔