Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

  • -- Horace Walpole 霍勒斯·沃波尔

诗歌是一种破坏散文的美丽方式,也是一种用平淡的感觉换取和谐的费力艺术。

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I don't think one can accurately measure the historical effectiveness of a poem; but one does know, of course, that books influence individuals; and individuals, although they are part of large economic and social processes, influence history. Every mass is after all made up of millions of individuals.

我不认为人们可以准确地衡量一首诗的历史效力;但人们当然知道,书籍影响着个人;个人,虽然他们是大的经济和社会进程的一部分,影响着历史。每个群体毕竟是由数百万个体组成的。

A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not exist till they are born … in poetry.

这是一种用语言来表达事物的方式,而这些事物是不可能用其他任何方式来表达的,在某种意义上,这些事物直到它们在诗歌中诞生才存在。

The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.

在电影或歌曲中谈论灵魂伴侣的想法很美好,也很浪漫,但在现实中,我觉得它很可怕。

Life is hard but so very beautiful.

生活是艰苦的,但如此美丽。