Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

  • -- William Hazlitt 威廉·哈兹里特

诗歌是一种普遍的语言,它使人的心灵与自然和自身融为一体。一个轻视诗歌的人,不可能对自己或其他任何东西有太多的尊重。

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My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're embarrassed that I write it or they're embarrassed by what I write about which are not such extraordinarily terrifying things, but they are the state of human existence.

我的朋友们从来不和我谈论我的诗歌,因为他们对我写的诗感到尴尬,或者他们对我写的诗感到尴尬,这些诗并不可怕,但它们是人类存在的状态。

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

一个作家边写边写,就像他犯了相反的错误一样,应该受到谴责;因为这给他所说的话带来了一种迂腐的效果,同时也使他的话难以理解。

There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.

如果一位将军无论如何都能表现出他的最佳能力,那么他所领导的人就会轻视他,这是没有什么风险的。

Energy is the universal language of Nature; Nature is the universal source of information.

能量是自然界的普遍语言;自然是信息的普遍来源。

This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.

这只会使我的收入太低,不会引起嫉妒,不会引起轻蔑。

The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.

对诗歌的恐惧表明我们与自己的现实隔绝了。

Do what you feel in your heart to be right for you'll be criticized anyway.

做你内心觉得正确的事,因为无论如何你都会被批评。

The heart is but the beach beside the sea that is the world.

心不过是海边的沙滩,那是世界。