Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with the anthologies of all the world besides.

  • -- William Ernest Henley 威廉姆·恩内斯特·亨里

现在,要读诗,就必须有自己的理想选集,而且不能满足于世界上所有的选集。

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So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.

因此,诗歌成为人们之间进行有益对话的一种方式,这些人不仅不为人知,而且彼此沉默。它在人民之间产生了一种对话,保护我们所有人不受所谓领导人的操纵。

The aim of writing poetry is to enable readers a little better to enjoy life or a little better to endure it.

写诗的目的是让读者更好地享受生活或更好地忍受生活。

The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.

从长远来看,第一批作家是第一位的,其余的都是在选集里。

I tended to be drawn to the weirder, darker stuff. Horror and sci-fi anthologies.

我倾向于被更奇怪、更黑暗的东西所吸引。恐怖和科幻选集。