The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

  • -- T. S. Eliot T.S.艾略特

诗人的工作不是寻找新的情感,而是运用普通的情感,把它们编成诗歌,表达那些根本不属于实际情感的情感。

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The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.

现在最好的意见是,有许多形态没有足够的区别来区分植物或动物,而就普通的植物和动物而言,给它们下一个定义比以往任何时候都困难得多。

I have similar feelings, actually. The intimacy of a club: you can see the people, you can almost feel them; you can't beat that. People will say things, and shout out, it's almost like they're up on the bandstand with you.

事实上,我也有类似的感觉。俱乐部的亲密感:你能看到人们,你几乎能感觉到他们;这是无可比拟的。人们会说些什么,然后大声喊出来,就像他们和你一起站在舞台上一样。

The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind him too; only, for the epic poet, tradition is rather narrower, rather more strictly compelling.

史诗诗人的背后有着物质的传统和文体的传统;这也是其他所有诗人都有的东西;只是,对于史诗诗人来说,传统要狭隘得多,要严格得多。

My dad was quiet, angry, shut down. So my thing is: I express everything that's there. I want to get it all out.

我爸爸很安静,很生气,然后就闭嘴了。所以我的意思是:我把所有的东西都表达出来。我想把一切都说出来。

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.

作为一名艺术家,我想要诠释我的感受,而不是跑过马路去问我妈妈怎么想。

If you are unwilling to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

如果你不愿意冒不寻常的风险,你将不得不安于平凡。

To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man.

要写得好,要像普通人一样表达自己,但要像智者一样思考。

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

我带我的孩子们去任何地方,但他们总是能找到回家的路。

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

我想成为科尼岛的桂冠诗人。

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

我渴望秩序,却发现它只存在于艺术中。