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。
The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
对于诗人来说，最重要的是尽可能少写。
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。
And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping.
有些诗人更擅长即兴朗读，因为他们不擅长演讲。我特别想到了一位我不愿指名画姓的诗人，他读起来枯燥无味，你的眼睛开始耷拉下来。
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
诗人所讲的伟大而明智的事情，他们自己也不明白。
All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.
所有诗人的妻子都过着堕落的生活，他们的丈夫却把她们看得像刀子一样。
Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.
年轻的诗人悲叹爱情的逝去;老诗人，岁月的流逝。令人惊讶的是，两者之间几乎没有什么区别。