Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.

  • -- Toi Derricotte 托伊德里科特

诗歌要求人们要有价值观,形成观点,除了赚钱和工作上的成功,还要关心其他的一些经验。

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But maybe it's up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you find, whatever you find, is always only part of the missing, and writing is the way the poet finds out what it is he found.

但也许它在山上,在树叶下,或者在某个地方的沟里。也许永远也找不到。但你所发现的,无论你发现了什么,总是缺失的一部分,而写作是诗人发现他所发现的东西的方式。

It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there was still much to invent, and much that at that period I necessarily knew nothing about.

的确,我在小范围内克服了新进程中的一个主要困难,并取得了成功,但仍有许多东西需要发明,而在那个时期,我必然对许多东西一无所知。

Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?

建筑是关于你如何克服呈现在你面前的障碍。这有时决定了你会有多成功:你在克服障碍方面有多擅长?

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

成功的人会从他的错误中获益,并以不同的方式再试一次。

A person's success is often limited by the level of their desire to succeed.

一个人的成功常常受到他对成功的渴望程度的限制。

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.

在诗歌中,必须说的每句话几乎都不可能说得好。

I know people like spectacle, but I'm interested in moving people.

我知道人们喜欢壮观的场面,但我对打动人很感兴趣。

People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.

人们如此重视外在。很恶心。