My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.

  • -- Thom Gunn 冈恩

我的老老师对诗歌的定义是一种理解的尝试。

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When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign in solitude.

当我们和更好的自己分开太久,被匆忙的世界分开,变得萎靡不振。厌倦了它的工作,厌倦了它的快乐,孤独中多么亲切,多么善良。

Shall Life renew these bodies? Of a truth All death will he annul, all tears assuage? Or fill these void veins full again with youth And wash with an immortal water age?

生命能使这些躯体重生吗?所有的死亡,所有的眼泪,他都能消除吗?还是用青春来填满这些空虚的血管,用不朽的岁月来洗涤?

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.

我总是会发现,即使是最差的画,也比最好的画更能表现某种东西。