I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have any reason to be proud of that.

  • -- Peter Davison 彼得·戴维森

我想为自己写了一些会被人记住的诗而自豪,但我永远不知道自己是否有理由为此而自豪。

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What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever of where it's going to end up.

我要做的是写一首诗——当然,是一首接一首地写——每首诗都要写,首先,我对它的结局毫无头绪。

To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative.

说一首诗是绝对的就等于什么也没说,因为墨迹是绝对的。然而,你把你喜欢的放进它。所以它变得完全相对。

I think all humans are essentially proud and I certainly am.

我认为所有人本质上都是骄傲的,我当然也是。

A beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.

乞丐的王国胜过骄傲人的妄想。