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诗歌
Poetry
The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.
另一方面,尽管如此,人们在生命的关键时刻接触诗歌。
The aim of writing poetry is to enable readers a little better to enjoy life or a little better to endure it.
写诗的目的是让读者更好地享受生活或更好地忍受生活。
True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.
真正的诗就像某些画,它的主人不为人知,只有少数有经验的人知道。
One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.
一个人应该只写那些因缺憾而痛苦的书。简而言之:你想放在自己办公桌上的那些。
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
一首诗如果连在一起就是真的。信息指向其他东西。一首诗只指向它自己。
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
我必须创造一个体系,否则就会被另一个人奴役;我不会推理和比较:我的工作是创造。
If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
如果我的诗歌的目标是实现什么,那就是把人们从他们看到和感觉到的有限的方式中解放出来。
We are the daily bread of forlorn lovers, of all who want to believe in love; they cannot live without a taste.
我们是孤独恋人的日常食物,是所有想要相信爱的人的日常食物;他们的生活离不开品味。
All words, then, belonging to the inner world of the mind, are of the imagination, are originally poetic words.
那么,一切属于心灵内部世界的文字,都是想象出来的,原本都是诗意的文字。
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
诗人的使命是让文字比平常发挥更大的作用,使它们在不止一个层面上发挥作用。
I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.
我被这黑暗的东西吓坏了 在我心中沉睡; 我整天都感到它那柔软的、羽毛似的旋转,它的恶毒。
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。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
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。
Don't you know no one can escape the power of creatures reaching out with breath alone?
难道你不知道没有人能逃脱吗 生物的力量 单独使用呼吸吗?
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
诗歌是强烈情感的自然流露,它源于平静中回忆的情感。
Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.''
因为大多数的我 拒绝你们中的大多数, 辩论很快就结束了,我们 分裂。”
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。
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?