A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
诗歌
Poetry
Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not.
无论想象捕捉到的美是什么，它一定是真理——不管它是否存在过。
Real poetry is art at its purest sense. It is never a commodity, but a breath of eternity.
真正的诗歌是最纯粹意义上的艺术。它从来不是一种商品，而是一种永恒的气息。
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
诗歌只是生活的证据。如果你的生活燃烧得很好，诗歌只是灰烬。
The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.
用押韵的形式或无韵诗写出来的东西不能成为好诗。
The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.
当时诗歌的第一个问题就是诚实，真诚。
Death be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for, thou art not so.
死神啊，不要骄傲，虽然有人说你强大而可怕，因为你并不是这样。
There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game.
有句老话对我很适用:如果你不玩游戏，你就不会输掉一场比赛。
I can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace.
我连一首关于伞的诗都写不出来，更不用说死亡、生命和永恒的和平了。
So when you inhale and exhale, notice your breath and realize God is dwelling in your chest.
所以当你吸气和呼气时，注意你的呼吸，意识到上帝就住在你的胸腔里。
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
诗歌是最美丽、最令人印象深刻、最有效的表达方式。
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
一个诗人的证明是，他的祖国对他的吸收就像他对祖国的吸收一样深情。
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。
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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。
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。
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
我用咖啡勺来衡量我的生活。
I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.
我必须再次回到大海，回到寂寞的大海和天空;我所要求的只是一艘大船和一颗指引它驶过的星星。
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。
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
一个不能写诗的时代，除了颓废者的聪明才智之外，什么文学也不能写。