A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
诗人
Poets
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted with a hundred not worth reading. Your true essayist is, in a literary sense, the friend of everybody.
散文家和诗人一样，是天生的而不是后天培养出来的。对于一个值得记住的人来说，这个世界面临着一百种不值得一读的东西。你真正的散文家，在文学意义上，是所有人的朋友。
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。
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。
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。
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
我断定，不是智慧使诗人能够写诗，而是一种本能或灵感，就像你在预言家和先知身上看到的那样，他们传达出所有崇高的信息，却一点也不知道它们的意思。
He was certainly in a confused state. I used to go and visit him in Callan Park. They were really - to me they were the best poets those two writing in those days but it wasn't very encouraging because, well, they weren't getting far were they?
他肯定处于一种困惑的状态。我过去常去卡伦公园看他。对我来说，他们是当时最好的诗人，但这并不鼓舞人心，因为他们没有走多远，不是吗?
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。