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诗歌
Poetry
That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said.
诗歌最终在它的正式机构中幸存下来，散文幸存下来，得到了表达。
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
我的想象力使我成为一个人，也使我成为一个傻瓜;它把整个世界都给了我，却把我赶出了这个世界。
Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
诗是一把永不拔出鞘的闪电之剑，它吞掉了装它的鞘。
Can we not force from widowed poetry, Now thou art dead, great Donne, one elegy To crown thy hearse?
伟大的多恩，既然你已辞世，我们怎能不从寡居的诗歌中强求一首挽歌来为你的灵车加冕?
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
一个人所发明的一切都是真的，这一点你可以完全肯定。诗歌和几何学一样精确。
Words are so strong and I am so timid my soul ignores warnings and I end up covered with your paint.
言语是如此的有力，我是如此的胆怯，我的灵魂忽视了警告，最终我被你的油漆覆盖。
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
我冒昧地猜测，阿农写了那么多诗却没有署名，他通常是个女人。
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
如果我读一本书，它使我的整个身体如此寒冷，没有火能温暖我，我知道这就是诗歌。
Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.
展现了诗歌的秩序，我们最终可以成长为我们成长过程中积累的东西。
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。
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.
对我来说，写作最大的乐趣不在于它是关于什么的，而在于文字所创造的内在音乐。
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。
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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。
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
我想，没有什么，甚至没有犯罪，比这种没完没了的工作更反对诗歌，更反对哲学，更反对生活本身了。
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。
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
诗歌揭开了隐藏在世界之美的面纱，使熟悉的事物仿佛不熟悉一样。
Poetry: the best words in the best order.
诗歌:以最好的顺序写出最好的文字。
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
告诉我，你打算如何度过你这狂野而珍贵的一生?