A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
诗歌
Poetry
Words are powerful. Words make a difference. They can create and destroy. They can open doors and close doors. Words can create illusion or magic, love or destruction. … All those things.
语言的力量很强大。语言决定一切。他们可以创造和毁灭。他们可以开门和关门。语言可以创造幻觉或魔法，爱或毁灭。所有这些。
Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent crimes. These tears are shaken from the wrath-bearing tree.
想想看，恐惧和勇气都救不了我们。 非自然的恶习是由我们的英雄主义造成的。 美德是由我们无耻的罪行强加给我们的。 这些眼泪是从含着怒气的树上流下来的。
Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.
像你们这样的两个人，一旦你们达成共识:生活只是永远的生活，两翼相对，桨对桨，就不能以如此惊人的速度彼此分开，也不能被卷走。
That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.
这是一个奇妙的变化，所以今天的大多数诗歌都是由诗人和他的朋友们一起发表的，如果不是直接由个人，当然是诗人自己的事业。
The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see --i t is, rather, a light by which we may see -- and what we see is life.
这首诗是一个关于人类使生活有意义的能力的小神话。最后，诗歌不是我们看到的东西，而是一束光，通过它我们可以看到，我们看到的是生活。
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。
I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age. I wrote a lot of stories and poetry and... I had a desire to create always. And I always had a desire to show my work.
我是一个视觉艺术家和作家，甚至从很小的时候。我写了很多故事和诗歌……我一直渴望创造。我一直想展示我的作品。
I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.
我不会把我意识的一个角落掩盖起来，而是让自己沉浸在这种奇特而不寻常的新生活状态中，这一切都将在以后提炼成诗歌。
Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.
诗歌的优点是能够在一半的时间里说两倍于散文的话，缺点是，如果你没有把全部的注意力放在诗歌上，那么你似乎在两倍的时间里说了一半的话。
Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go To heal my heart and drown my woe Rain may fall, and wind may blow And many miles be still to go But under a tall tree will I lie And let the clouds go sailing by.
喂!喂!喂!我走向瓶子 治愈我的心，淹没我的悲伤 可能下雨，也可能刮风 还有很长的路要走 但我会躺在一棵大树下 让云彩飘过。
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
成为无名小卒 在这个世界上 哪一个日夜尽其所能让你喜欢 每个人都意味着打一场最艰苦的战斗 任何人都可以战斗，而且永不停止。
Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.
创造性产生于自发性和局限性之间的张力，后者(如河岸)迫使自发性成为艺术或诗歌作品中必不可少的各种形式。
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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
如果我读一本书，它使我的整个身体如此寒冷，没有火能温暖我，我知道这就是诗歌。
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。
Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.
你的缺席使我很难过 就像穿针引线一样。 我所做的一切都是用它的颜色缝制的。
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
诗歌是在翻译中丢失的东西。
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
我们从与别人的争吵中提炼出来的，是修辞，而从与自己的争吵中提炼出来的，是诗歌。
Poetry: the best words in the best order.
诗歌:以最好的顺序写出最好的文字。