A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
诗歌和诗人
Poetry And Poets
Every old poem is sacred.
每一首古诗都是神圣的。
Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.
诗歌是一种血淋淋的抽象。
Poets wish to profit or to please.
诗人希望获利或取悦。
The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
这个人不是疯了，就是在作诗。
Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.
诗歌是我们街灯想象的阴影。
Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.
伟大的诗歌不需要翻译，只需要一颗敏感的心。
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.
在诗歌中，必须说的每句话几乎都不可能说得好。
The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.
对诗歌的恐惧表明我们与自己的现实隔绝了。
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
饮水者所作的诗，没有一句能长久，也不能长久。
Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
真正的诗，是过一种美好的生活。活在诗里胜过写诗。
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
诗歌是记录最幸福、最优秀的人最幸福、最幸福的时刻。
It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile.
奇怪的是，人们如此之快就想强迫他们的诗人，就像在流放中一样。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're embarrassed that I write it or they're embarrassed by what I write about which are not such extraordinarily terrifying things, but they are the state of human existence.
我的朋友们从来不和我谈论我的诗歌，因为他们对我写的诗感到尴尬，或者他们对我写的诗感到尴尬，这些诗并不可怕，但它们是人类存在的状态。
Always learn poems by heart,' she said. 'They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.
她说:“要把诗歌背下来。”“它们必须成为你骨骼中的骨髓。就像水中的氟化物一样，它们会让你的灵魂不受世界软腐的影响。
But maybe it's up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you find, whatever you find, is always only part of the missing, and writing is the way the poet finds out what it is he found.
但也许它在山上，在树叶下，或者在某个地方的沟里。也许永远也找不到。但你所发现的，无论你发现了什么，总是缺失的一部分，而写作是诗人发现他所发现的东西的方式。
Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.
诗歌应该能够触及每一个人，它应该能够吸引所有层次的理解。
But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.
但诗歌是一种语言，它不是它的主题，也不是它的创造者的背景，兴趣，爱好或固定。它比历史更接近话语。