A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
诗歌
Poetry
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
简而言之，我把词的诗意定义为美的有节奏的创造。
Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
诗歌使你的脊梁变得僵硬，这样你才能站立起来，这样你才能谱写你的人生。
Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril.
诗歌是我们心灵的热线，如果我们忘记了这种情感力量，我们就会陷入危险。
Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.
你应该忘记并微笑，这比你应该记住并悲伤要好得多。
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
诗人首先是一个热爱语言的人。
Make this day a tree leaning over the river eternity and fuss about in its branches.
让这一天成为一棵永远倚在河上的树，在它的枝桠上忙碌。
You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.
你创造美不是为了刺激感官，而是为了给灵魂以养料。
I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet.
我相信只有诗歌才算数……伟大的小说家首先是伟大的诗人。
Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.
有时诗歌的灵感来自于阅读其他诗歌时的对话。
You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
你只能活两次。一次当你出生，一次当你面对死亡。
Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
诗歌是一种伪造的创造物，它创造的东西是不真实的，就好像它们是真实的一样。
Within my reflection I see tears, for what I see is the truth, are my greatest fears.
在我的倒影中我看到了眼泪，因为我看到的是真相，这是我最大的恐惧。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Tell all the truth but tell it slant.
说实话，但要倾吐。
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
我们从与别人的争吵中提炼出来的，是修辞，而从与自己的争吵中提炼出来的，是诗歌。
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
每颗心都唱着一首歌，残缺不全，直到另一颗心窃窃私语。想唱歌的人总能找到歌。每一个沐浴在爱河中的人都是诗人。
Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need.
从不成功的人认为成功是最甜蜜的。要理解一种甘露需要极其迫切的需要。
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。
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
我用咖啡勺来衡量我的生活。