A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
诗
Poem
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 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。
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。
What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely.
从诗歌中“回归”的感觉究竟是什么?有些东西更轻、更软、更大——然后它会褪色，但永远不会完全消失。
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。”
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。
I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have any reason to be proud of that.
我想为自己写了一些会被人记住的诗而自豪，但我永远不知道自己是否有理由为此而自豪。
A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh outlay of stuff at the same season.
一首诗不会因拙劣而生涩。正如树木在春天产生了新的组织，每个诗人都在同一季节提出了一项新的支出。
The poem is a form of texting... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a way of saying more with less, just as texting is.
这首诗是一种短信……这是原文。这是一种语言情感的完善——就像发短信一样，这是用更少的钱说更多的话的一种方式。
I am still interested in the long or serial poem, but have written a few smaller things. I may start sending to journals again in a year or so... that's about it.
我仍然对长诗或系列诗感兴趣，但写了一些较小的东西。我可能会在一年左右的时间里再次给杂志投稿……仅此而已。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.
当你阅读和理解一首诗，理解它丰富和正式的含义，那么你就掌握了一点混乱。
A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense.
诗歌传达的信息与其说是信息的来源，不如说是意义的出现。
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。
Poems have ideas. The ideas of poems come out of their emotions and their emotions are carried on images.
诗有想法。诗的思想是由诗的情感所产生的，诗的情感是由诗的意象所承载的。
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。
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。