I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!

  • -- Rita Dove 丽塔·达夫

我被任命为桂冠诗人。这完全出乎我的意料,因为大多数的桂冠诗人都比我大得多。

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Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.

老年人不应该吃健康食品,他们需要尽可能多的防腐剂。

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

诗人是这样的人,他架起通向星星的梯子——一边爬梯子一边拉提琴。

It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes.

似乎随着年龄的增长,这个世界变得越来越不真实。

I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.

我喜欢认为我是我们这个时代的诗人。