A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
诗人
Poet
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。
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 man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.
一个人可能多才多艺，但也可能是一个软弱的诗人。
Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.
每一位优秀的诗人都有一位批评家，但事实并非如此。
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。
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。
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
无论诗人、演说家或圣人怎么说，老年依然是老年。
No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.
没有一个人是伟大的诗人，他把自己大量的精力用在别的事情上。
If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
如果诗人追求道德目标，他的诗歌力量就会减弱。
I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's.
当我第一次意识到最充实的生活是诗人的生活时，我还是个孩子。
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。
No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.
从来没有一个诗人或演说家相信世上还有比他更好的人。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
No bad man can be a good poet.
没有坏人能成为好诗人。
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。
Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.
良心不过是死人对我们说话。
I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically different from the last.
我想这其中也包含了刻意改变的因素。至少在我看来，我的每一本书都与上一本书截然不同。