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。
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.
说到原子，语言只能用在诗歌中。诗人也不太关心描写事实，而更关心创造形象。
One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.
旅行是为了再次学习如何像孩子一样对生活感到惊奇。诗人和艺术家是有福的，因为他们知道如何保持自己的好奇心。
Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.
就像一位伟大的诗人，大自然知道如何用最有限的手段产生最大的效果。
The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
诗人享有无与伦比的特权，能够随心所欲地做自己和他人。
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
只有诗人才能写悲剧。因为悲剧只不过是痛苦被诗歌的炼金术转化为狂喜。
The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.
诗人不知道——通常他永远也不会知道——他真正为谁写作。