A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
诗歌
Poetry
Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.
听着，真正的诗歌什么也不会说;它只是勾出了可能性。打开所有的门。你可以穿过任何适合你的人。
Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.
打破一个花瓶，把碎片重新组装起来的爱，比把它完整时的对称性视为理所当然的爱更强烈。
Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.
我想我的计划是写诗，出版书，以写诗为生。我想这是一个雄心勃勃的计划。
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
原因只能是:英雄主义诗歌取决于一个英雄时代，一个时代之所以成为英雄，是因为它是什么，而不是因为它做了什么。
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。
Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too.
正如在小说中一样，幽默在诗歌中也是一条优美的线。我只是觉得它更难写。也很难保持读者的尊重。
I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.
我想不出诗歌改变世界的例子，但它们改变了人们对世界现状的理解。
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
我们不会停止探索，我们所有探索的终点将是我们开始的地方，第一次知道这个地方。
That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were.
这就是诗歌的伟大之处;一个人意识到自己做了自己的小转变——你只是伟大作物的一部分，可以说。
Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.
诗歌是一个人们可以表达他们原始人类思想的地方。它是人们在公开场合说出私底下知道的事情的出口。
I am the eye that beholds... And I am the dreamer that paints the stars in the night sky... For I am the one they call artist, and you call Love.
我是看见的眼睛……我是一个梦想家，画出夜空中的星星……因为他们称我为艺术家，而你称我为爱。
Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.
由于预计大多数诗歌都比带着沉重的行李通过奥黑尔机场还要糟糕，公众对诗歌的了解少之又少。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
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。
Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime.
只要我们的世界够大，时间够长，小姐，这种羞怯并不是犯罪。
After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.
在最后一个“不”之后，会有一个“是”，在这个“是”之上，世界的未来就悬在那里。
Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
这里躺着一个名字写在水里的人。
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
诗歌比历史更接近重要的真理。