Here they have no time for the fine graces of poetry, unless it freely grows in deep compulsion, like water in the well, woven into the texture of the soil in a strong pattern.

  • -- Iain Crichton Smith 顿·史密斯

在这里,他们没有时间欣赏诗歌的优美之处,除非诗歌像井里的水一样,在深沉的冲动中自由地生长,以强烈的形式编织进泥土的质地中。

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It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.

诗歌没有捷径可走,这是一件令人高兴的事。现在世人应该知道,除非飞到帕纳索斯,否则是到不了帕纳索斯的。

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

如果世界上任何一天都没有诗歌,那么诗歌就会在那一天诞生。因为会有无法忍受的饥饿。

Fretting over how life ends, or anything else for that matter, is a complete waste of time.

为生命的终结而烦恼,或者为其他事情而烦恼,完全是在浪费时间。

A person may paint or talk about painting but he cannot do both at the same time.

一个人可以画画或谈论画画,但他不能同时做这两件事。