The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

  • -- T. S. Eliot T.S.艾略特

诗人的工作不是寻找新的情感,而是运用普通的情感,把它们编成诗歌,表达那些根本不属于实际情感的情感。

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Ask me why I keep on loving you when it's clear that you don't feel the same way for me... the problem is that as much as I can't force  you to love me, I can't force myself to stop loving you.

问我为什么我一直爱着你,明明你对我没有同样的感觉……问题是,即使我不能强迫你爱我,我也不能强迫自己不爱你。

A relationship has to be cultivated. There have to be feelings of love for another first. But then you have to really like the person.

一段关系需要培养。必须先对另一个人有爱的感觉。但你必须真正喜欢这个人。

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

每个时代都有自己独特的病理形式,这些病理形式以夸张的形式表达了其内在的性格结构。

O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.

阿公路,我说回来我不怕离开你,但我爱你,你表达我比我能表达自己。

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.

昂贵的广告用暗示和图像来吸引我们。普通的只是说,买。

I often sit back and think, I wish I'd done that, and find out later that I already have.

我经常坐下来想,我希望我已经做了,然后发现我已经做了。

If you are unwilling to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

如果你不愿意冒不寻常的风险,你将不得不安于平凡。

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

我爱上了社会工作,这就是我作为一个诗人的下场。

I really want to keep at it until I find out what I'm capable of.

我真的想坚持下去,直到我发现我能做什么。

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

每一个沐浴在爱河中的人都是诗人。