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。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative.
说一首诗是绝对的就等于什么也没说，因为墨迹是绝对的。然而，你把你喜欢的放进它。所以它变得完全相对。
Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear.
通常，一首诗的结构是符合实际的——一行或两行诗会在我的耳边重复。
A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.
由其自身规律所产生的诗歌，在所谓的审美、判断、演绎的客观原则方面，可能是未实现的，是不好的。
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 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。
In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures.
换句话说，图画之间是一种相互联系的关系，这种关系只在点上接触，而不是作为诗的插图或诗对图画的推断。