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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

  • -- William Butler Yeats 叶芝

我们从与别人的争吵中提炼出来的，是修辞，而从与自己的争吵中提炼出来的，是诗歌。

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Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

雄辩不能很好地代替行动，我们只相信雄辩。如果我们真的想成为一个伟大的国家，我们不能光说不练;我们必须行动起来。

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You should not quarrel with your neighbour, for he will remain where he is, but your high handedness will become the talk of the people.

你不可与邻舍争竞，因为他必住在原处。你的强暴必成为百姓谈论的话题。

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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

也许没有人可以成为一个诗人，甚至享受诗歌，没有一定的不健全的头脑。

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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

自由已经付出了太多的鲜血和痛苦，不能以廉价的言辞换取自由。

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Prose talks and poetry sings.

散文会说话，诗歌会唱歌。

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Bread and salt never quarrel.

面包和盐从不争吵。

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