A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.

  • -- A. R. Ammons 安蒙斯

由其自身规律所产生的诗歌,在所谓的审美、判断、演绎的客观原则方面,可能是未实现的,是不好的。

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Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.

此外,从生态原则推导出的实用建议威胁着商业的既得利益;这些投资所产生的财政和政治权力有时应被用来压制环境影响研究,这并不令人惊讶。

When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.

当与你内心深处的信念背道而驰的原则开始赢得胜利的那一天,那么战斗就是你的使命,和平已成为罪恶。你必须以最宝贵的和平为代价,用你全部的信心之火,把你的信念暴露在朋友和敌人面前。

To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative.

说一首诗是绝对的就等于什么也没说,因为墨迹是绝对的。然而,你把你喜欢的放进它。所以它变得完全相对。

It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.

甚至有可能,没有其起源的法律可能是非理性的,我们永远无法成功地制定它们。

Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.

每首诗在“成为”中都产生了它所产生的法则:将法则扩展到其他诗中永远不会完全采用。

Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.

法官以法律为依据,而不是以舆论为依据,他们应该完全无视时代的压力。

Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.

和平之于诗,犹如面粉之于面包。

History passes the final judgment.

历史作出最后的判断。