1.
"Poetry
is
the
rhythmical
creation
of
beauty
in
words.
"
-
Edgar
Allan
Poe
【美丽词语的韵律创造就是诗歌。
】
2.
"Poetry
is
the
spontaneous
overflow
of
powerful
feelings.
"
-
William
Wordsworth
【诗歌是强烈情感的自然溢出。
】
3.
"Poetry
is
the
art
of
uniting
pleasure
with
truth.
"
-
Samuel
Johnson
【诗歌是将快乐与真理结合的艺术。
】
4.
"Poetry
is
like
a
bird,
it
ignores
all
frontiers.
"
-
Yevgeny
Yevtushenko
【诗歌就像一只鸟儿,它无视所有边界。
】
5.
"Poetry
is
the
shadow
cast
by
our
streetlight
imaginations.
"
-
Lawrence
Ferlinghetti
【诗歌是由我们街灯般想象投下的影子。
】
6.
"Poetry
is
an
act
of
peace.
Peace
goes
into
the
making
of
a
poet
as
flour
goes
into
the
making
of
bread.
"
-
Pablo
Neruda
【诗歌是一种和平的行为。
就像面粉是做面包的必须原料一样和平是一位诗人所必须具备的条件。
】
7.
"Poetry
is
the
opening
and
closing
of
a
door,
leaving
those
who
look
through
to
guess
about
what
was
seen
during
the
moment.
"
-
Carl
Sandburg
【诗歌就像一扇门,打开和关闭都像是一个瞬间,看门内的人只能猜测背后的故事。
】
8.
"Poetry
is
the
key
to
the
hieroglyphics
of
nature.
"
-
David
Hare
【诗歌是自然
hieroglyphics
的钥匙。
】
9.
"Poetry
is
eternal
graffiti
written
in
the
heart
of
everyone.
"
-
Lawrence
Ferlinghetti
【诗歌是永恒的涂鸦,书写在每个人心中。
】
10.
"Poetry
is
the
art
which
is
closest
to
tears
and
memories.
"
-
Oscar
Wilde
【诗歌是最接近泪水和回忆的艺术。
】
11.
"Poetry
is
the
spontaneous
overflow
of
powerful
feelings:
it
takes
its
origin
from
emotion
recollected
in
tranquility.
"
-
William
Wordsworth
【诗歌是强烈情感的自然溢出,它源自在平静中回忆的情感。
】
12.
"Poetry
is
when
an
emotion
has
found
its
thought
and
the
thought
has
found
words.
"
-
Robert
Frost
【诗歌是一种情感,它找到了它的思想,思想找到了合适的词汇。
】
13.
"Poetry
is
not
a
turning
loose
of
emotion,
but
an
escape
from
emotion;
it
is
not
the
expression
of
personality
but
an
escape
from
personality.
"
-
T.
S.
Eliot
【诗歌并不是对情感的无节制发泄,而是逃离情感;它不是个人表达,而是从个人身上逃脱。
】
14.
"Poetry
is
the
art
of
creating
imaginary
gardens
with
real
toads.
"
-
Marianne
Moore
【诗歌是用真正的蟾蜍创造虚构的花园的艺术。
】
15.
"Poetry
is
life
distilled.
"
-
Gwendolyn
Brooks
【诗歌是提取生命本质的酒精。
】
16.
"Poetry
is
thoughts
that
breathe,
and
words
that
burn.
"
-
Thomas
Gray
【诗歌是呼吸的思想,以火焰为字的故事。
】
17.
"Poetry
is
not
only
dream
and
vision;
it
is
the
skeleton
architecture
of
our
lives.
It
lays
the
foundations
for
a
future
of
change,
a
bridge
across
our
fears
of
what
has
never
been
before.
"
-
Audre
Lorde
【诗歌不仅是梦与幻想;它是我们生命的骨骼建筑。
它为变革的未来奠定基础,为我们渡过前所未有的恐惧架起桥梁。
】
18.
"Poetry
is
the
journal
of
a
sea
animal
living
on
land,
wanting
to
fly
in
the
air.
"
-
Carl
Sandburg
【诗歌是如同生活在陆地上的海洋动物的日记,想要在空中飞翔。
】
19.
"Poetry
is
language
at
its
most
distilled
and
most
powerful.
"
-
Rita
Dove
【诗歌是语言最为精练和有力的。
】
20.
"Poetry
is
a
way
of
life,
not
a
career.
"
-
Peter
Davison
【诗歌是一种生活方式而不是一种职业。
】