One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

  • -- Francois Marie Arouet 阿鲁埃

很少有人会否认诗歌的一个优点:它比散文言简意赅。

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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。

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

两个孤独的人相互保护,相互接触,相互问候,这便是爱。

The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms.

玫瑰没有任何解释;她绽放,因为她绽放。

I have been no more than a medium, as it were.

可以说,我只不过是一个媒介。