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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These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.

这些诗,连同它们所有的残酷、怀疑和困惑,都是为了人类的爱和赞美上帝而写的,如果它们不是,我将是一个该死的傻瓜。

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

如果我们仅仅遵循祖辈们所熟知的原则,没有十分之一的商界人士能做得那么好。

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

一个好的领导者的天才之处在于,他留下了一个没有天才风度的常识可以成功处理的局面。

All words, then, belonging to the inner world of the mind, are of the imagination, are originally poetic words.

那么,一切属于心灵内部世界的文字,都是想象出来的,原本都是诗意的文字。

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

如果有什么事是一个人能做好的,我说让他去做。给他一个机会。

Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.

每一位优秀的诗人都有一位批评家,但事实并非如此。

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

我想成为科尼岛的桂冠诗人。

Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely.

黑猩猩是濒危物种。严重。