A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
诗人
Poet
You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.
你会发现，诗人或他那个时代最重要的船长，就像你会做的那样，会讨价还价或削土豆皮。
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
如果你的日常生活看起来很糟糕，不要责怪它;责备你自己，你还不够诗人，不能唤起它的丰富;对于造物主来说，没有贫穷。
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。
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。
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。
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。
When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.
当尤利西斯听到一个史诗诗人唱他自己的故事，然后他暴露了自己的身份，诗人想继续唱下去，尤利西斯不再感兴趣了。这是非常惊人的。
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。
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 epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind him too; only, for the epic poet, tradition is rather narrower, rather more strictly compelling.
史诗诗人的背后有着物质的传统和文体的传统;这也是其他所有诗人都有的东西;只是，对于史诗诗人来说，传统要狭隘得多，要严格得多。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
No bad man can be a good poet.
没有坏人能成为好诗人。
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。
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。
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。
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。
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
正如诗人所说，“只有上帝才能造树”，这可能是因为很难弄清楚如何把树皮弄上去。