A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
诗
Poem
Poems are difficult to silence.
诗是难以沉默的。
A poem is like a score for the human voice.
诗就像人类声音的乐谱。
I think of a poem as being deeper than headline news.
我认为诗歌比头条新闻更深刻。
Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.
操纵阴影和音调就像创作音乐或诗歌一样。
The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.
一个人写诗的原因是为了让别人记住你的诗。
The "I" in the poem is not you but someone who knows a lot about you.
诗中的“我”不是你，而是一个很了解你的人。
We turned an anthem into an assignment, a poem into a job description.
我们把一首赞歌变成了一项任务，把一首诗变成了一份工作描述。
Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
和平之于诗，犹如面粉之于面包。
For me, a poem is an opportunity to kind of interrogate myself a little bit.
对我来说，诗歌是一种自我反省的机会。
The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.
盒子是一个宇宙，一首诗，冻结在人类体验的边界上。
I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
我从来没有写过一首我知道结局的诗。写诗就是发现。
A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.
一首诗不需要有意义，就像自然界的大多数事物一样，往往没有意义。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I’ve written this poem before but always through a window, never through an open door.
我以前写过这首诗，但总是隔着一扇窗户，从未穿过一扇敞开的门。
If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.
如果一首诗每次都是新的，那么它必然是一种发现的行为，一个偶然的机会，一个可能导致实现或灾难的机会。
Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.
诗不是写出来的，是流血的;出自诗人抽象的头脑。文字把诗滴在书页上;出于他的悲伤、喜悦和愤怒。
I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book.
我不认为有人必须把一首诗读两遍有什么错。甚至是一本书。
Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'
克洛普斯托克在他的诗中被问及一段话的意思。他回答说:“有一次，上帝和我都知道这是什么意思;现在只有上帝知道了。”
I always say that I'll have a go and see whether the poem works and if it does, then fine.
我总是说，我要去看看这首诗是否可行，如果可行，那就好。