A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
诗歌
Poetry
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
一首诗开始于哽咽，一种错误的感觉，一种乡愁，一种相思。
If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all.
如果诗歌不像树叶那样自然地长到树上，那它最好根本就不长。
A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.
一首诗可以被定义为思考情感——思考人类的情感和弱点。
A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense.
诗歌传达的信息与其说是信息的来源，不如说是意义的出现。
It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.
这是我们重新评估过去的一种方式。我们可以在诗歌中做到这一点在散文中是做不到的。
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, Wondering... Fearing... Doubting...
在那黑暗的深处，我久久地站在那里，思索着……担心……怀疑……
I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold.
我爱那些隐藏着欲望的女人，她们的欲望让马在她们生命的起点就结束了。
They come here wanting to be loved, and the boys on the stage receive them from the poem.
他们来到这里想要被爱，舞台上的男孩们从诗中接受他们。
Who would have known the dark eyes staring into mine would become our children's eyes...?
谁会想到我那双乌黑的眼睛会变成孩子们的眼睛呢?
A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.
一首诗可以产生影响，但你不能指望听众能理解所有的细微差别。
Nothing is made, nothing disappears. The same changes, at the same places, never stopping.
没有创造，就没有消失。同样的变化，同样的地方，从未停止。
Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
然而，的确，诗歌是美味的;最好的散文是最有诗意的散文。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
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。
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?
You are lovely God has painted every feature of your soul.
你是可爱的，上帝已经描绘了你灵魂的每一个特征。
I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.
我几乎不记得我是如何开始写诗的。很难想象我认为诗歌能做什么。