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Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
持久的大理石追求的诗人必须来自拉丁语或希腊语。
— Edmund Waller 沃勒
同一主题，不同的表达
更多好句 ↗Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.
我们知道，诗人是非常敏感的人，在我看来，他们最敏感的事情之一就是钱。
Robert Penn Warren
沃伦
Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
语言应该是诗人和体力劳动者共同创造的。
George Orwell
乔治·奥威尔
Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.
歌词必须有保险。这就是为什么诗人一般都是拙劣的抒情作家，因为语言太丰富了。你会被它淹没。
Stephen Sondheim
斯蒂芬·桑德海姆
Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.
另一位古代诗人，他的名字我现在想不起来了，他把真理叫做时间之女。
Aulus Gellius
格利乌斯
Poets are born, not paid.
诗人是天生的，不是花钱雇来的。
Addison Mizner
阿迪森·麦兹那
A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
诗歌记录的情感和情绪超出了正常的语言，只能拼凑在一起，隐喻性地暗示。
Diane Ackerman
黛安·艾克曼