A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
口头
Verbal
A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
诗人是语言对象的专业制造者。
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
像诗歌这样的语言艺术是反思性的;它停下来思考。音乐是即时的，它会继续发展。
Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.
憨豆先生在不使用语言的时候是最棒的，但是我在语言和非语言表达方面都很在行。
My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.
我的母亲是我生命中的一股强大的力量。战争年代的女人，没有上大学，但应该上大学。非常有趣，非常健谈，非常聪明，非常机智。
But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.
但是，在专为背诵而作的诗歌中，最大的困难，也许也是最重要的困难，是难以达到语言之美，或者更确切地说，难以使语言之美表达出来。
I had a mother I could only seem to please with verbal accomplishments of some sort or another. She read constantly, so I read constantly. If I used words that might have seemed surprising at a young age, she would recognize that and it would please her.
我有一个母亲，我似乎只能用某种或另一种语言上的成就来取悦她。她经常读书，所以我也经常读书。如果我在她年轻的时候使用一些可能会让她感到惊讶的话，她会认识到这一点，并且会感到高兴。