A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
诗歌
Poetry
I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.
我仍然读多恩的作品，尤其是他的情诗。
If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.
如果你想惹恼一个诗人，就解释他的诗。
You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.
诗不是用思想写的，而是用文字写的。
Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
诗歌是自然象形文字的关键。
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
诗歌是把快乐与真理结合起来的艺术。
I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
我不与任何人斗争;因为没有一件事值得我为之奋斗。
So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay.
所以今天天亮了…美景易逝。
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
大自然从来没有背叛过她那颗爱她的心。
Poets are always taking the weather so personally.
诗人总是把天气看得太重。
All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
所有的俚语都是隐喻，所有的隐喻都是诗歌。
Poetry will die when love and pain cease to exist.
当爱和痛苦不再存在时，诗歌就会消亡。
Here is the repeated image of the lover destroyed.
这是重复的情人形象被毁。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.''
因为大多数的我 拒绝你们中的大多数， 辩论很快就结束了，我们 分裂。”
Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is!
爱是沉重而光明的，光明而黑暗的，热和冷的，生病而健康的，睡着和醒着的——除了它是什么，它是一切!
Wine is bottled poetry.
葡萄酒是瓶装的诗歌。
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
如果我读一本书，它使我的整个身体如此寒冷，没有火能温暖我，我知道这就是诗歌。
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
画是看得见而不摸得着的诗，诗是摸得着而不摸得着的画。
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
我想，没有什么，甚至没有犯罪，比这种没完没了的工作更反对诗歌，更反对哲学，更反对生活本身了。