A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
诗歌
Poetry
We walked through night until there was a poem.
我们走了一夜,直到有一首诗。
Without poetry, stories would be told in sepia.
没有诗歌,故事就只能在深褐色中讲述。
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers
诗歌就像一只鸟,它无视一切边界
There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.
没有错误就没有诗歌。
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
诗人是个说谎者,他总是说真话。
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
我用咖啡勺来衡量我的生活。
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
诗歌是生活中唯一值得记住的东西。
Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.
诗歌对我们如此重要,直到学校毁了它。
I am ashamed of my century, but I have to smile.
我为自己的世纪感到羞耻,但我必须微笑。
Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.
诗人说,爱是女人的全部存在。
The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking.
战争是为了保持创造神话的特权。
We suffer each other to have each other a while.
我们彼此容忍,让彼此拥有一段时间。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
The crown of literature is poetry.
文学的最高境界是诗歌。
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
纯数学,从它的角度来说,是逻辑思想的诗歌。
Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
听;隔壁的宇宙好极了:我们走吧。
Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different.
也许我受够了具体的诗歌。有很多不好的具体诗歌,此外,它与视觉诗歌混淆,这是完全不同的。
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
画是看得见而不摸得着的诗,诗是摸得着而不摸得着的画。
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。