A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

  • -- W. H. Auden 奥登

诗人是语言对象的专业制造者。

相关名言

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.

但是,在专为背诵而作的诗歌中,最大的困难,也许也是最重要的困难,是难以达到语言之美,或者更确切地说,难以使语言之美表达出来。

Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.

憨豆先生在不使用语言的时候是最棒的,但是我在语言和非语言表达方面都很在行。

My father, an architectural photographer, was an incurable tinkerer, maker and mender.

我的父亲是一名建筑摄影师,是一位不可救药的修补匠、制造者和修理工。