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诗歌
Poetry
Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.
每一个诗人……发现自己出生在散文之中。他必须从现实世界的琐碎和阻碍中挣扎出来，进入理想的自由和无限。
Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.
诗歌不仅仅是一组相互关联的词语;它远不止于此，它能让我们一瞥我们对世界的看法。
The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.
雨对风说: 你推我，我就扔。” 他们就这样打了花园的床 花儿真的跪下了， 就睡在那里，虽然没有死。 我知道花的感觉。
If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'
如果我们问一个模糊的问题，比如，“什么是诗歌?”我们希望得到一个模糊的答案，比如，“诗歌是文字的音乐”，或者“诗歌是对无序的语言纠正”。
Here they have no time for the fine graces of poetry, unless it freely grows in deep compulsion, like water in the well, woven into the texture of the soil in a strong pattern.
在这里，他们没有时间欣赏诗歌的优美之处，除非诗歌像井里的水一样，在深沉的冲动中自由地生长，以强烈的形式编织进泥土的质地中。
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.
我希望我们聪明的年轻诗人能记住我对散文和诗歌的朴素定义;也就是说，散文=文字的最佳顺序;-诗歌=最好的语言，最好的顺序。
Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.
清晰，清晰，当然清晰是世界上最美好的东西，有限的，有限的清晰，我没有也从来没有任何诗歌的动机，但为了达到清晰。
Poetry isn't important in today's culture, but the fact that it's useless and people still continue to write it makes it important, in that weird paradoxical, poetic sort of way.
在今天的文化中，诗歌并不重要，但事实上，诗歌毫无用处，人们还在继续创作，这使得诗歌变得重要，以一种奇怪的，矛盾的，诗意的方式。
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
整个世界是个舞台，男男女女，演员而已。一个人在他的一生中扮演了许多角色，他的行为经历了七个时代。
With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.
有好几种不同的诗歌可供选择，一个人会决定他最喜欢做一个史诗诗人，他会有意识地下定决心，开始写一首史诗。
To write a poem you must have a streak of arrogance-- not in real life I hope. In real life try to be nice. It will save you a hell of a lot of trouble and give you more time to write.
要写一首诗，你必须有点傲慢——我希望不是在现实生活中。在现实生活中，尽量做个好人。它会为你省去很多麻烦，给你更多的时间来写作。
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
诗歌不仅是梦想和憧憬;它是我们生活的骨架。它为未来的变革奠定了基础，架起了一座桥梁，跨越了我们对前所未有的恐惧。
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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
诗歌是一种情感找到了它的思想，思想找到了语言。
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!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
人生不过是一个行走的影子，一个可怜的演员，在舞台上趾高气扬，焦躁不安，然后就再也听不见了;这是一个白痴讲的故事，充满了喧嚣和愤怒，没有任何意义。
An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.
一个上了年纪的人不过是一件微不足道的东西，一件破烂不堪的外套，绑在一根棍子上。
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?
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。