A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
诗人
Poets
Poets are born, not paid.
诗人是天生的,不是花钱雇来的。
Poets are born, not made.
诗人是天生的,不是培养出来的。
Frost is the most sophisticated of poets.
弗罗斯特是最老练的诗人。
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
不成熟的诗人模仿;成熟的诗人偷窃。
There are very few great poets in the world.
世界上伟大的诗人很少。
The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
诗人只是神的阐释者。
Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.
诗人,就像你欠他债的朋友一样,你恨他。
All poets are idlers, even if all idlers are not poets.
所有的诗人都是游手好闲的人,即使不是所有的游手好闲的人都是诗人。
Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race.
旅行者就像诗人。他们大多是愤怒的种族。
Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
持久的大理石追求的诗人必须来自拉丁语或希腊语。
Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
语言应该是诗人和体力劳动者共同创造的。
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
从来没有人,甚至诗人,测量过心灵能容纳多少。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty.
但诗人并不被认为是危险的,他们被建议进行自我审查。在大多数情况下,诗人被要求根本不写作。我利用了这种消极的自由。
Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
谦虚是诗人所不常有的美德,因为他们几乎都认为自己是世界上最伟大的人。
I don't know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets - the established poets. There was a lot of pretty boring stuff to sort of put up with and to add to, to make something vital from.
我不知道年轻的诗人是否读了很多,你知道,著名的诗人。有很多很无聊的东西要忍受,要添加,要做一些重要的东西。
Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.
生活在那样的音高,那样的边缘,在某种程度上是很多诗人都在从事的事情。
A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
诗歌记录的情感和情绪超出了正常的语言,只能拼凑在一起,隐喻性地暗示。
I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.
我一直是个仰慕者。我认为,如果一个人想有所成就,那么钦佩别人的天赋是必不可少的。我不知道没有它我会在哪里。