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。
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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 proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
一个诗人的证明是，他的祖国对他的吸收就像他对祖国的吸收一样深情。
I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.
我认为诗人就是那些不自称为诗人的人。
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
我们不关心非常贫困的人。它们是不可想象的，只有统计学家或诗人才能接近它们。
I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.
我爱上了社会工作，这就是我作为一个诗人的下场。
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。