A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
诗人
Poets
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。
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。
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。
Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.
诗人是把文字从对定义的坚定占有中解放出来的战士。
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。
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
诗人不画。他们解开自己的笔迹，然后重新绑起来，但方式不同。
Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.
让诗人们哭着入睡吧，他们所有含泪的话都将化为蒸汽。
Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
诗人失去了他们本应得到的赞美的一半，如果知道他们小心翼翼地涂抹了什么的话。
Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.
诗人都是爱的人，他们感受伟大的真理，并把它们说出来;真理的真理就是爱。
Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric; of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry.
在与他人的冲突中，我们夸夸其谈;在我们与自己的冲突中，我们创造了诗歌。
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。
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
诗人是夜莺，他坐在黑暗中，用甜美的歌声为自己的孤独歌唱。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
不成熟的诗人模仿;成熟的诗人偷窃。
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.
诗人不应该扒窃自然的衣袋。让他借钱吧，借了就借，借了就借，借了就借，借了就还。准确地审视自然，但要从回忆中写作，更要相信想象力，而不是记忆。
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。
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。
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。