A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
诗歌
Poetry
Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
诗歌是在没有其他事情可以做的时候发生的事情。
We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.
我们根本没有接触过诗歌。
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
诗歌是扼死生命的一种方式。
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
诗歌比历史更接近重要的真理。
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
除了印刷错误，诗人什么都能活下来。
The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.
唯一的皇帝是冰淇淋之王。
To create art means to be crazy alone forever.
创造艺术意味着 独自疯狂 直到永远。
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
成为诗人是一种条件，而不是一种职业。
For darkness restores what light cannot repair.
因为黑暗能恢复光明无法修复的东西。
I know you're tired, but come. This is the way.
我知道你累了，但是过来吧。就是这样。
Anything is good material for poetry. Anything.
任何东西都是写诗的好材料。任何东西。
A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.
一粒诗足以使一个世纪的生命绽放。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.
我几乎不记得我是如何开始写诗的。很难想象我认为诗歌能做什么。
Tell all the truth but tell it slant.
说实话，但要倾吐。
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。
The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
美女之死，无疑是世界上最富有诗意的话题。
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。
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。