A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
诗
Poem
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。
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。
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。
With the question of the effect of a poem, the topic of investigation shifts from that of textual autonomy to textual reception - to the issue of what we actually look for or find in reading a poem.
关于诗歌效果的问题，研究的主题从文本的自主性转移到文本的接受——转移到我们在阅读诗歌时真正寻找或发现什么。
I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.
我不能告诉你一首诗从何而来，它是什么，它是干什么用的，别人也不能告诉你。我不能告诉你的原因是，一首诗的目的是超越叙述，通过燃烧得到认可。
You should always be trying to write a poem you are unable to write, a poem you lack the technique, the language, the courage to achieve. Otherwise you're merely imitating yourself, going nowhere, because that's always easiest
你应该一直尝试写一首你写不出来的诗，一首你缺乏技巧、语言、勇气去实现的诗。否则你只是在模仿自己，什么都不做，因为这总是最简单的
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
Poems are difficult to silence.
诗是难以沉默的。
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。
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。
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。
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。