A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
诗人
Poet
Poets have a license to lie.
诗人有撒谎的权利。
No bad man can be a good poet.
没有坏人能成为好诗人。
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
敲出虚伪，敲入真实。
The poet is a madman lost in adventure.
诗人是一个迷失在冒险中的疯子。
The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.
坏诗人是模仿自然的谄媚者。
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
每一个沐浴在爱河中的人都是诗人。
If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.
如果诗人是现实主义者，他们就不会是诗人。
Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.
良心不过是死人对我们说话。
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
诗人必须留下他写作的痕迹，而不是证据。
To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.
做诗人是一种条件，而不是一种职业。
I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.
我想成为科尼岛的桂冠诗人。
I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.
我喜欢认为我是我们这个时代的诗人。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
一个诗人如果在公共场合读他的诗，他可能还有其他令人讨厌的习惯。
The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.
“诗人”一词的字面意思是“制造者”:任何没有做好的东西都不存在。
The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.
诗人的工作不是寻找新的情感，而是运用普通的情感，把它们编成诗歌，表达那些根本不属于实际情感的情感。
The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
散文作家只有在诗人去世时才能退居二线。
A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so.
诗人或散文叙述者通常会在回顾过去的岁月中所取得的成就时，发现其中一些成就是可以接受的，而另一些则不那么容易接受。
The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
诗人把自己暴露在危险之中。所有关于诗歌的论述，所有关于诗歌的知识，都只是部分的保证。