A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.

  • -- Diane Ackerman 黛安·艾克曼

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。

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Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

自由地看,英语是每一种方言、种族和时间范围的增加和发展,是所有语言的自由和紧凑的组成。

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

真理永远是绝对的,但意见是通过观众的情绪、血液和性情过滤出来的真理。

To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.

写诗和自杀,显然如此矛盾,实际上是一样的,都是逃跑的尝试。

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。

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。

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

总的来说,语言是掩盖真相的工具。

Work is my salvation. It changes my moods.

工作是我的救星。它改变了我的情绪。

A mighty flame follows a tiny spark.

星星之火,可以燎原。