A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
诗歌
Poetry
To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.
写诗和自杀，显然如此矛盾，实际上是一样的，都是逃跑的尝试。
The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.
高级希腊诗歌没有虚构情节;它的任务是表达英雄传奇和神话。
Complexity is not an aesthetic criterion. It is a quality associated only with division and organization of labor.
复杂性不是审美标准。它是一种只与劳动分工和组织有关的品质。
Before you, life was desolate the past hardly worth remembering and now, each moment a keepsake I can't throw away.
在你之前，生活是凄凉的，过去几乎不值得回忆，现在，每一刻都是我不能扔掉的纪念品。
I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
我把沉默和夜晚化为言语。我写下了难以言表的东西。我使旋转的世界静止不动。
Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.
诗歌是一门技术上人人都能掌握的艺术:一张纸，一支铅笔，还有一支已经准备好了。
I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.
我在浴室里，楼梯上，到处都有成堆的诗集。写诗的唯一方法就是读诗。
Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.
诗歌所隐含的意义远胜于直接的说教。在公开的讲坛上，她的声音变得嘶哑而失败。
Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!
出版我认识的其他音乐家的抒情书籍、诗歌或漫画。这才是我真正想闯进去的地方!
Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.
诗歌是一门艺术，是艺术的最高境界;最容易涉足，最难达到真正的卓越。
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。
A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.
一个没有诗歌和艺术的世界，就像一个没有鸟儿和鲜花的世界:可以忍受，但要难得多。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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……
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
诗歌不是情感的放纵，而是情感的逃避;它不是个性的表现，而是对个性的一种逃避。但是，当然，只有那些有个性和情感的人才知道想要逃离这些东西意味着什么。
Tell all the truth but tell it slant.
说实话，但要倾吐。
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
诗歌是有节奏地用文字创造美。
All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.
所有的金子都不会发光， 并不是所有流浪的人都迷路了; 强壮的老人不会枯萎， 霜打不到深根。 将从灰烬中唤醒一团火， 从阴影里射出的光; 折断的刀必重新折断， 无冕者将再次称王。
As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
诗歌不是一种职业，而是一种徒劳无益的游戏。没有一个诚实的诗人能对他所写的东西的永久价值有十足的把握:他可能白白浪费了时间，把生活搞得一团糟。