A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.

  • -- Paul Valery 保尔·瓦雷里

如果艺术中固有的困难能给人以灵感,那么人就是诗人;如果他们剥夺了他的思想,他就不是诗人。

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Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

拥有知识但缺乏清晰表达的能力,并不比没有任何想法好。

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

如果星星每千年只出现一个晚上,人们会多么惊奇和凝视。

Thank goodness we don't live in medieval times, when people fought wars over ideas.

谢天谢地,我们不是生活在中世纪,那时人们为思想而战。

The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.

对诗歌的恐惧表明我们与自己的现实隔绝了。

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.

在诗歌中,必须说的每句话几乎都不可能说得好。

Every man must settle down once in a lifetime.

每个人一生中都必须安定下来一次。