A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
诗歌
Poetry
Poetry is more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.
诗歌比以往任何时候都更有必要，就像一团火照亮我们的舌头。
My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.
我的老老师对诗歌的定义是一种理解的尝试。
Poetry can't cure cancer, but it can save your life until you die.
诗歌不能治愈癌症，但它可以拯救你的生命，直到你死去。
My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
我的主题是战争，战争的怜悯。诗是可怜的。
Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.
诗歌可以被定义为复杂情感的清晰表达。
I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.
我不认为奥登很喜欢我的诗，他很圣公会教徒。
Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.
小说永远是我的最爱，诗歌紧随其后。
Even this late it happens: the coming of love, the coming of light.
即使是这么晚才发生: 爱的到来，光明的到来。
Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.
用潦草的名字统治人类的手是伟大的。
Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
也许还有一条新路或一扇暗门在拐角处等着你。
Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
真理永远不能说出来，以便被人理解而不被人相信。
I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
我已经喝得酩酊大醉，今晚我再也不喝别的酒了。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
我认为，我们现代文化的一个可能定义是，我们十分之九的知识分子不会读诗。
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。
An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.
一个上了年纪的人不过是一件微不足道的东西，一件破烂不堪的外套，绑在一根棍子上。
Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
听;隔壁的宇宙好极了:我们走吧。
Music is the universal language of mankind.
音乐是人类的通用语言。
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。