A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
诗歌
Poetry
The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.
诗歌的作用不在于使我们准确地思考，而在于使我们真实地感受。
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
饮水机写的诗，没有一首能使人长久愉快，也没有一首能使人长命百岁。
No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?
没有一首诗是容易理解的;那么，为什么读者要期待快速的结果呢?
Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
有些时刻很美好，有些更美好，有些甚至值得写下来。
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
诗人的勇气是把通向疯狂的门半开着。
Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.
除了自己，任何人都不需要任何人，他要么是野兽，要么是神。
You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.
你知道，人们一直在用诗歌说话。他们只是没有意识到。
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
任何健康的人都可以两天不吃东西，但不能没有诗。
Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.
花时间写作。你可以在每天半小时内完成你一生的工作。
Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
诗歌是数学的一种形式，与文字有着高度严格的联系。
With my poems, I finally won even my mother. The longest wooing of my life.
用我的诗，我终于赢得了甚至我的母亲。我一生中最长的追求。
We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.
我们如此抽象地谈论诗歌，是因为我们都是糟糕的诗人。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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!
As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
诗歌不是一种职业，而是一种徒劳无益的游戏。没有一个诚实的诗人能对他所写的东西的永久价值有十足的把握:他可能白白浪费了时间，把生活搞得一团糟。
Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different.
也许我受够了具体的诗歌。有很多不好的具体诗歌，此外，它与视觉诗歌混淆，这是完全不同的。
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.
一知半解是件危险的事;喝得深一点，否则就尝不到皮埃尔泉水的味道;在那里，浅浅的烈性酒使我们的大脑陶醉，喝得酩酊大醉使我们再次清醒过来。
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。
What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?
如果我们充满忧虑，却没有时间去驻足凝视，这又算得了什么呢?