A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
诗歌
Poetry
I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
我知道我将在云端的某处遇见我的命运;我所斗争的，我不恨;我所保守的，我不爱。
For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
因为我学会了观察大自然，不像在年少无知的时候那样，而是常常聆听人类那沉静而忧伤的音乐。
The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think.
诗歌的第一个功能是讲真话，学习如何做到这一点，找出你的真实感受和真实想法。
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
诗歌把我们引向我们存在的非结构化的源泉，引向未知，让我们回到理性的、结构化的自我，重新焕发活力。
Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
散文在某些场合可以承载大量的诗歌;另一方面，诗歌在适度的散文重压下沉沦和沉沦。
Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.
也许所有对诗歌的关注都带来了某种价值，尽管这种关注更多的是指向较小的价值，而不是较大的价值。
So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.
所以我认为诗歌，语言，它的形成，对我来说，过去是，现在仍然是一种努力，去从本质上毫无意义的情况中找到意义。
Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eye, your ear, your tongue, your hand.
诗歌扩展了人的感官，使之处于最佳状态。它让你意识到你的鼻子，你的眼睛，你的耳朵，你的舌头，你的手。
Like a sculptor, if necessary, carve a friend out of stone. Realize that your inner sight is blind and try to see a treasure in everyone.
像雕刻家一样，如果有必要， 用石头雕出朋友。 意识到你的内心是盲目的 试着在每个人身上看到财富。
The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.
音乐家也许是最谦虚的动物，但他也是最自豪的。正是他发明了破坏诗歌的崇高艺术。
The sea waves stirred before me they dashed against the rocks like a mermaid rising from its depths curled white sea foam were her locks.
波浪在我面前翻腾着，冲击着岩石，像一条美人鱼从海的深处浮上来。
I'm innocent still inside me are stained glass windows that have never been broken and when I see your light it stains my soul with color.
我是无辜的，我的内心是从未被打破的彩色玻璃窗，当我看到你的光芒，我的灵魂染上了色彩。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.
诗歌没有捷径可走，这是一件令人高兴的事。现在世人应该知道，除非飞到帕纳索斯，否则是到不了帕纳索斯的。
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
诗歌是在翻译中丢失的东西。
Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
这里躺着一个名字写在水里的人。
I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.
我有时会在诗中谈论一首诗的创作。
We ran as if to meet the moon.
我们跑得好像要遇见月亮。