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。
Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.
诗歌是诗人的作品，不是人民或社区的作品;艺术创作永远只能是个人心灵的产物。
Poets are born, not paid.
诗人是天生的，不是花钱雇来的。
The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them.
诗人的其他读者是古代诗人，他们从不朽的距离看新写的书页。他们的诗歌形式是永恒的，很难创造出新的形式来接近他们。
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。
Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest.
旅人就像诗人一样，多半是一种愤怒的民族。我每天都要大发雷霆，向总督和他的儿子证明我是认真的，他们对我殷勤备至。
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。