My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

  • -- Wilfred Owen 威尔弗雷德·欧文

我的主题是战争,战争的怜悯。诗是可怜的。

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Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

每颗心都唱着一首歌,残缺不全,直到另一颗心窃窃私语。想唱歌的人总能找到歌。每一个沐浴在爱河中的人都是诗人。

Poets find their voices when they articulate the wishes of the dead, especially those slain as sacrificial talismans to a larger frame of existence.

当诗人表达死者的愿望时,尤其是那些被杀的人,作为一种更大的生存框架的祭祀护身符时,他们找到了自己的声音。

When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid, it can't last long." But though a war may be "too stupid," that doesn't prevent its lasting.

当战争爆发时,人们说:“这太愚蠢了,不会持续太久的。”尽管战争可能“太愚蠢”,但这并不妨碍它的持久。

Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

亚当认识夏娃,夏娃就怀孕了。遗憾的是,对于他们的妻子来说,这似乎仍然是一些男人唯一了解的东西。

Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.

同情有敌人,这些敌人就是怜悯,道德愤怒,恐惧。

Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.

只有失败的战斗比胜利的战斗更令人悲伤。