Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.

  • -- Thomas Carlyle 托马斯·卡莱尔

每一个诗人……发现自己出生在散文之中。他必须从现实世界的琐碎和阻碍中挣扎出来,进入理想的自由和无限。

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Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread.

诗歌是一种和平的行为。和平之于诗人,犹如面粉之于面包。

Not once or twice in our fair island-story, The path of duty was the way to glory.

在我们美丽的岛上, 责任之路是通向光荣之路。