A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
诗歌
Poetry
A mighty flame follows a tiny spark.
星星之火,可以燎原。
If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
如果你成不了诗人,就做那首诗吧。
Tell all the truth but tell it slant.
说实话,但要倾吐。
Why should poetry have to make sense?
为什么诗歌必须有意义?
Poetry is the deification of reality.
诗歌是现实的神化。
Twice I have lived forever in a smile.
有两次我永远活在微笑中。
The true poem rests between the words.
真正的诗在字里行间。
Valentine's Day is the poet's holiday.
情人节是诗人的节日。
The moment of change is the only poem.
改变的时刻是唯一的诗篇。
I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
我从容不迫,无所畏惧。
She lives the poetry she cannot write.
她活在她写不出来的诗里。
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
大地的诗歌永远不死。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
我用咖啡勺来衡量我的生活。
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。
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
树林里分出两条路,而我——我选择了人迹罕至的那条路,这使一切都不同了。
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
诗歌是在翻译中丢失的东西。
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
我认为,我们现代文化的一个可能定义是,我们十分之九的知识分子不会读诗。
Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is!
爱是沉重而光明的,光明而黑暗的,热和冷的,生病而健康的,睡着和醒着的——除了它是什么,它是一切!