A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
诗人
Poets
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。
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。
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。
The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
诗人的想象力支配现实的程度，说到底，正是衡量他的重要性和尊严的准确尺度。
Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.
我们知道，诗人是非常敏感的人，在我看来，他们最敏感的事情之一就是钱。
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。
They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.
他们说诗人主要是为自己写作;如果有人喜欢它，那很好，如果不喜欢，也没关系;当然，对我来说不是。
Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.
歌词必须有保险。这就是为什么诗人一般都是拙劣的抒情作家，因为语言太丰富了。你会被它淹没。
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。
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。
Many poets write books. They'll tell you: Well, I've got my next book, but there are two poems I need to write, one about x, one about y. This is a wonder to me.
许多诗人写书。他们会告诉你:好吧，我有我的下一本书，但是有两首诗我需要写，一首关于x，一首关于y，这对我来说是一个奇迹。
Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.
人类学家是连接诗人和科学家的纽带;尽管他们在原始民族中的野外工作常常使他们忘记了科学的语言。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
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。
There are very few great poets in the world.
世界上伟大的诗人很少。
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。
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。