If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'

  • -- A. R. Ammons 安蒙斯

如果我们问一个模糊的问题,比如,“什么是诗歌?”我们希望得到一个模糊的答案,比如,“诗歌是文字的音乐”,或者“诗歌是对无序的语言纠正”。

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I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.

我对任何有关反抗、混乱、混乱的事情都感兴趣——尤其是那些似乎毫无意义的活动。在我看来,这似乎是通往自由的道路。我不是从内心开始,而是从外部开始,通过身体接触到精神。

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。

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

如果你能迫使你的心、神经和肌肉在他们离开后很长一段时间内为他们服务,那么当你内心除了对他们说:“坚持下去!”

I'll have the music, and then I'll just turn the microphone on, press Play and Record and sing. And whatever comes out ends up being the melody.

我来放音乐,然后打开麦克风,按播放,录音,唱歌。不管结果是什么,都是旋律。

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.

在你的日常生活中,在你的记忆中,在人们在公共汽车上说的话中,在新闻中,或者只是在你的心中,你都能找到诗歌。

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

一分钟的完美是值得付出努力的。一个瞬间是你对完美的最大期待。

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

你创造了一个音乐社区,不仅仅是在音乐会上,而是通过和你的朋友谈论音乐。