For three years, out of key with his time, He strove to resuscitate the dead art Of poetry; to maintain ‘the sublime’ In the old sense. Wrong from the start-No, hardly, but seeing he had been born In a half savage country, out of date.

  • -- Ezra Pound 以斯拉镑

三年的时间里,他与他的时代格格不入,他努力使死去的诗歌艺术复活;保持旧意义上的“崇高”。从一开始就错了——不,几乎错不了,但他出生在一个半野蛮的国家,已经过时了。

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Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.

音乐使我们想要生活。你不知道有多少次人们告诉我,他们曾经沮丧沮丧,只想死。但随后一首特别的歌曲吸引了他们的耳朵,帮助他们重新获得了力量。这就是音乐的力量。

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

诗歌可以使我们不时地对构成我们存在的基础的更深层的、无名的感情有更多的认识,而我们很少能深入到这种感情中去;因为我们的生活大多是对我们自己的不断逃避。