Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

  • -- A. R. Ammons 安蒙斯

每隔五百年左右,就会出现一篇关于诗歌的摘要,我们无法想象没有它的生活。

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I don't know any comedian who tailors his act to his audience. Maybe people say they do, but I can't even imagine them.

我不知道哪个喜剧演员会根据观众的口味来调整自己的表演。也许人们会这么说,但我甚至无法想象。

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

为死者过度悲伤是疯狂的;因为这是活人所受的伤,死人却不知道。

Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.

诗歌是一篇被施了魔法的散文,是由视觉思想构成的音乐,是一种思想的声音。

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.

我比天堂更能想象地狱;我想这是我的遗产吧。

I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it.

我从来没有想过要当演员。原来我可以靠做这个谋生。

But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.

但诗歌是我的生命。诗歌对我来说很重要。