A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
诗歌
Poetry
Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back.
不要光顾连锁书店。每次我看到某个作家计划在连锁书店读书和签名，我就想告诉他，他在背后捅那些独立书店的竹杠。
I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
我从事诗歌创作，是因为迫切需要谴责不公、剥削和羞辱。我知道这不足以改变世界。但是保持沉默将是一种无法容忍的共谋。
Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned
向下，向下，向下进入坟墓的黑暗 它们轻轻地离去，美丽的，温柔的，善良的; 他们悄悄地走了，聪明的，机智的，勇敢的。 我知道。但我不赞成。我没有辞职
From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics, compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness, a system in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbour, and to love your neighbour’s wife.
他们从拜伦勋爵的诗歌中汲取了一套道德体系，由厌世和好色组成，其中的两大戒律是:恨你的邻居，爱你邻居的妻子。
So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.
因此，诗歌成为人们之间进行有益对话的一种方式，这些人不仅不为人知，而且彼此沉默。它在人民之间产生了一种对话，保护我们所有人不受所谓领导人的操纵。
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
诗歌可以使我们不时地对构成我们存在的基础的更深层的、无名的感情有更多的认识，而我们很少能深入到这种感情中去;因为我们的生活大多是对我们自己的不断逃避。
To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. Blackwater Woods
要生活在这个世界上，你必须能够做三件事:爱会死的东西;把它压在你的骨头上，知道你的生命依赖于它;当该放手的时候，放手吧。黑水森林
When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
当权力把人引向傲慢时，诗歌提醒他自己的局限性。当权力缩小了人类关注的范围时，诗歌提醒着人类存在的丰富性和多样性。权力腐败时，诗歌净化。
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
除了在课堂上实际阅读大量的诗歌，我建议你做两件事:第一，在教授你所能教授的一切的同时，不去管它，要让学生知道诗歌是一种不同于逻辑阐述的话语模式。
I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.
我一直很喜欢诗歌的魔力，但现在我开始看到，即使是最优秀的诗人，他们是如何运用、尝试和考验技巧来创造这种幻觉的。终于到了那里，那种令人兴奋的美妙感觉。
That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
虽然曾经如此明亮的光辉现在永远从我的视线中消失。虽然没有什么能使草中的光辉再现，但花中的光辉却能使它重现。我们不会悲伤，相反，我们会在身后找到力量。
I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don't come from the surface; they come from the deep down. The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart.
我不认为你能写出好文章，除非你把你自己和你的感受暴露出来。深沉的歌不是来自表面;他们来自内心深处。你要写的诗和歌，我相信都在你的心里。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I would especially like to recourt the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.
我特别想引用诗神的话，她四年前和邮递员私奔了，只是偶尔给我寄来一张潦草的明信片。
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。
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
诗人是世界上未被承认的立法者。
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
诗歌揭开了隐藏在世界之美的面纱，使熟悉的事物仿佛不熟悉一样。
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。
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。