A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
诗歌和诗人
Poetry And Poets
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo
写一本诗集就像把一片玫瑰花瓣扔进大峡谷，等待回音
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。
I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.
我认为诗歌已经失去了很多力量，因为没有人知道。没有人需要背诵诗歌。
A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.
如果艺术中固有的困难能给人以灵感，那么人就是诗人;如果他们剥夺了他的思想，他就不是诗人。
The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.
诗歌的行为包括突然发现一个想法分裂成许多相同的主题并将它们组合起来;他们押韵。
Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.
诗歌要求人们要有价值观，形成观点，除了赚钱和工作上的成功，还要关心其他的一些经验。
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。
The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all.
你脑中有越多的诗，你就会理解越多的诗，因为你会找到人们写诗的根本原因。
Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.
万物都有自己的画家或诗人，像童话里的公主一样被束缚着，直到合适的解放者把它解放出来。
Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
诗歌是一种普遍的语言，它使人的心灵与自然和自身融为一体。一个轻视诗歌的人，不可能对自己或其他任何东西有太多的尊重。
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。
They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it.
他们需要学习诗歌。他们不需要学习诗歌。他们不需要被告知如何解读诗歌。他们不需要被告知如何理解诗歌。他们需要学习。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
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。
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。
Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while.
希望和记忆只有一个女儿，她的名字叫艺术，她建造了自己的住所，远离绝望的田野，那里的人们把衣服挂在分叉的树枝上，作为战争的旗帜。呵，我所亲爱的，希望和记忆的女儿，与我同在吧!
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。
Poets wish to profit or to please.
诗人希望获利或取悦。