A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
诗人
Poet
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。
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
诗人是这样的人，他架起通向星星的梯子——一边爬梯子一边拉提琴。
A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams.
诗人应该在他的文章中留下痕迹，而不是证据。只有痕迹才会产生梦。
The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
哲学家证明了哲学家的存在。诗人只是享受存在。
To become the love of a poet is to become both a muse and an immortal all at the same time.
成为一个诗人的爱人，就是同时成为一个缪斯女神和一个不朽的人。
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。
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
也许没有人可以成为一个诗人，甚至享受诗歌，没有一定的不健全的头脑。
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
诗人向所有的人诉说着他们被压抑和遗忘的另一种生活。
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。
I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.
我认为自己首先是诗人，其次才是音乐家。我像诗人一样活着，也像诗人一样死去。
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time."
还有一位老诗人，我不记得他的名字了，他说:“真理是时间的女儿。”
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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。
Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time.
永远不要用“听众”这个词。“除非诗人是为了钱而写作，否则公众的想法在我看来就是错误的。诗人没有“听众”。他们一直在和一个人说话。
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。
I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!
我被任命为桂冠诗人。这完全出乎我的意料，因为大多数的桂冠诗人都比我大得多。
I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.
我看不出一个人怎么能一边从事物理学的前沿工作，一边写诗。他们是对立的。
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。