It's not easy to define poetry.

  • -- Bob Dylan 鲍勃·迪伦

给诗歌下定义并不容易。

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For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it.

出于某种原因,人们觉得我很有趣。很难定义一个想法为什么有趣。更难以定义一个人为什么会有趣。这是一个我根本无法定义的词。但不管我是否完全知道它是什么,我似乎就是它。

A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.

排队可能要花我们几个小时;然而,如果它看起来不像是片刻的思考,我们的缝合和拆解就等于零。

If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing?

如果你没有花时间去定义幸福对你意味着什么,那么你的一生都在追求什么呢?

It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.

这是我们重新评估过去的一种方式。我们可以在诗歌中做到这一点在散文中是做不到的。