A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
诗人和诗歌
Poets and Poetry
Poetry is composing for the breath.
诗是为呼吸而作。
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skilfully.
荷马主要教导其他诗人巧妙地说谎的艺术。
Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
批评家写作是出于智力训练，而不是诗人。诗人的写作是发自内心的。
A true poet is one who can appreciate the disciplines and structures of any and all styles of poetry.
真正的诗人是能够欣赏任何和所有诗歌风格的学科和结构的人。
And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.
读诗的人很多，但读一个诗人的人却不多。
One of Wordsworth's Lake District neighbours remarked, upon hearing of the poet's death "I suppose his son will carry on the business."
华兹华斯在湖区的一位邻居听说这位诗人去世后说:“我想他的儿子会继承他的事业。”
The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work.
表演诗人的问题在于他们似乎没有读过任何东西。所以他们的作品中没有真正意义上的诗歌传统。
Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world.
处理诗歌是一项艰巨的任务，原因很简单，一个人做编辑的原因是，他不断地接受自己对如何理解世界的理解。
A poet is simply an artist whose medium is human emotions. A poet chisels away at our own sensibilities, shaping our vision while molding our hearts. A poet wraps words around our own feelings and presents them as fresh gifts to humanity.
诗人只是以人类情感为媒介的艺术家。诗人在塑造我们心灵的同时，也在塑造我们的视野。诗人用文字包装我们自己的情感，把它们作为新鲜的礼物送给人类。
The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it.
诗人和观众之间的关系实在是微不足道。重要的是诗人听到了他正在传播的东西。他这么做的原因不是是否有人带着听筒。他希望有人收到它。
Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all.
诗歌通常不直接传达情感，而是通过创造性地为这些情感创造基础。因此，它传达的不仅仅是情感;只有通过这种方式，它才能传达更多的情感。