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。
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。
Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.
诗人说过,有孩子的原因是为了让自己长生不老。永生?现在我有五个孩子了,我唯一的希望就是在我死之前他们都离开家。
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。
Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.
英镑的疯狂。所有的诗人都是。他们必须如此。你不会把庞德这样的诗人扔进疯人院。
Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.
另一位古代诗人,他的名字我现在想不起来了,他把真理叫做时间之女。
Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by others, sought unceasingly to create a more tolerable world for everyone.
许多科学家和诗人以他们自己的方式,以各种方式和手段,并在他人的帮助下,不断地寻求为每个人创造一个更可容忍的世界。