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诗歌和诗人
Poetry And Poets
Poetry isn't like any writing I've ever heard before. I don't understand all of it, just bits of images, sentences that appear half-finished, all fluttering together like brightly colored ribbons in the wind.
诗歌和我以前听过的任何作品都不一样。我不明白这一切，只是一张张的图片，一串串半生不熟的句子，像色彩鲜艳的丝带在风中飘动。
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。
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。
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!
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
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。
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。
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。