A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
诗歌
Poetry
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
诗歌是用真实的蟾蜍创造想象花园的艺术。
Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.
诗歌是一种政治行为，因为它涉及讲真话。
Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.
金钱无处不在，诗歌亦然。我们缺少的是诗人。
You are an Universe of Universes and your soul a source of songs.
你是宇宙的宇宙，你的灵魂是歌曲的源泉。
And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.
第二个问题，诗歌可以被教授吗?我不这么认为。
If what is true brings us sorrow, if what sorrow brings is truth.
如果真实带给我们的是悲伤，如果悲伤带给我们的是真理。
He will understand when it is too late that it is easier to love.
当一切都太迟时，他才会明白爱是件容易的事。
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
诗人们一直神秘地对奶酪保持沉默。
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
诗歌是一面镜子，把扭曲的东西变得美丽。
The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.
现代诗歌的最大分水岭是法语，而不是英语。
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
除非你随身携带一些诗歌，否则你在任何地方都找不到诗歌。
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
我爱你，爱到我灵魂所能及的深度、广度和高度。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
诗歌不是情感的放纵，而是情感的逃避;它不是个性的表现，而是对个性的一种逃避。但是，当然，只有那些有个性和情感的人才知道想要逃离这些东西意味着什么。
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
诗歌比历史更接近重要的真理。
poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths.
诗歌是当整个世界似乎对它的美和真理沉睡时，对生活的关注。
The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
美女之死，无疑是世界上最富有诗意的话题。
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
树林里分出两条路，而我——我选择了人迹罕至的那条路，这使一切都不同了。