The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

  • -- Walt Whitman 沃尔特惠特曼

一个诗人的证明是,他的祖国对他的吸收就像他对祖国的吸收一样深情。

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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

你是否只从那些仰慕你、温柔待你、支持你的人身上吸取了教训?那些与你争竞,与你争竞的,岂不是给你大教训吗?

Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.

我发疯的时候格兰特支持我,他喝醉的时候我支持他,现在我们彼此支持。

I know that I haven't powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates.

我知道我没有足够的能力把自己分成挣钱的人和创造的人。

My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.

我的父亲,上帝保佑他,是个音乐家。他的父亲认为他的音乐是垃圾。

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

诗人是这样的人,他架起通向星星的梯子——一边爬梯子一边拉提琴。

All in tune with love and the slow world moving from the poem.

所有的旋律都与爱和从诗中缓缓移动的世界相协调。

Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.

自由诗就像自由的爱情;这在术语上是矛盾的。

A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.

诗人必须留下他写作的痕迹,而不是证据。