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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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。
A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story.
作家的作品往往反映了他或她在生活中所接触到的东西;诗歌或故事的基础。
A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never a thought to begin with.
可以这么说，诗歌从来就不是一项精心安排的工作。它始于哽咽，一种错误的感觉，一种乡愁，一种相思。这从来就不是一个想法。
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。
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。
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。