A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
诗歌
Poetry
I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem.
我相信我想成为一名诗人，但内心深处我只想成为一首诗。
What's Love, if not this folly of a wider space, taking us to an innermost Love.
爱是什么，如果不是这个愚蠢的更广阔的空间，把我们带到一个最深处的爱。
If you think I'm happy when you're not around, it's because I'm thinking of you.
如果你认为你不在时我很快乐，那是因为我在想你。
I'm looking for a guy who makes you want to dance and write poetry all day long.
我在找一个让你整天想跳舞和写诗的男人。
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
诗歌是一种情感找到了它的思想，思想找到了语言。
Time passes too fast. Like a hummingbird flying by, it’s just a blur to my eyes.
时间过得太快了。就像蜂鸟飞过一样，我的眼前一片模糊。
For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: it might have been.
因为在所有悲伤的语言或文字中，最悲伤的是:它可能是。
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
如果让我在痛苦和一无所有之间做出选择，我会选择痛苦。
However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.
然而，如果一首诗可以被简化成一个散文句子，它就不会有太多。
Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.
诗歌包含了通过理性语言感知到的非理性的神秘。
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
诗歌是一种使阴影具体化的艺术，是一种使虚无存在的艺术。
There are things known and there are things unknown and in between are the doors.
有些事情是已知的 还有一些未知的东西 中间是门。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The sea waves stirred before me they dashed against the rocks like a mermaid rising from its depths curled white sea foam were her locks.
波浪在我面前翻腾着，冲击着岩石，像一条美人鱼从海的深处浮上来。
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。
Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
不要为胜利而活。 不要为结束而活。 活在当下。
Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
这里躺着一个名字写在水里的人。
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。
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。