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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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For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.
因为什么是诗歌，但却是一种危险的自我理解的尝试:它是自传中最深刻的部分。
I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read and reread a poem so many times that it simply drills itself into your head.
我认为诗歌是唯一一个你喜欢的作家能真正影响你的领域，因为你读了又读了那么多遍一首诗，以至于它会在你的脑海中根深蒂固。
The poem in the rock and The poem in the mind Are not one. It was in dying I tried to make them so.
诗在磐石里，诗在心田。我是在临死的时候想让他们这么做的。
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。”
What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever of where it's going to end up.
我要做的是写一首诗——当然，是一首接一首地写——每首诗都要写，首先，我对它的结局毫无头绪。
Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
每首诗在“成为”中都产生了它所产生的法则:将法则扩展到其他诗中永远不会完全采用。