偶然在一个诗的网站上读到这些关於诗的名言，一时兴起，便顺手译了出来，同大家一起共享思考。

"If a novel is winter, and a short story is a snow storm, then a poem is a snowball, squeezed."~ Bruce Dethlefsen
“如果长篇小说是冬天，短篇小说是一场暴风雪，那么诗便是一个雪球，捏紧的。”~ 布鲁思․戴索森(Bruce Dethlefsen,1948-)2011-2012年美国威斯康辛州桂冠诗人。

"I see woefully obscure poetry as simply a kind of verbal rudeness." ~ Billy Collins
“在我看来，晦涩得可怕的诗不过是一种粗暴无礼的言语。”~柯林斯（Billy Collins ,1941-)，2001-2003年美国桂冠诗人。

"The door to what a poem is should be left wide open." ~ Joe Sottile
“该让「什么是一首诗」的门敞开”~ Joe Sottile，美国诗人

"Poets are those who notice." ~ Phyllis Beckman
“诗人是那些关注的人”~ Phyllis Beckman

"Most people ignore poetry because most poetry ignores most people." ~ Adrian Mitchell
“许多人漠视诗是因为许多诗漠视了许多人。” ~ Adrian Mitchell（1932-2008），英国诗人

"There have not been many American poets, living or dead, you’d want to bring home to meet your grandmother or have speak to your Bible study group". ~ Charles Simic
“没有多少个美国诗人，在世的或已去世的，你会要带回家去同你的祖母见面，或去你的圣经班上讲话。” ~ Charles Simic （1938-），美国诗人。

"...good poetry can be as ornate as a cathedral or as bare as a pottingshed..." ~ Mona Van Duyn
“。。。好的诗能如教堂般华丽，也能如盆栽棚般简朴。。。”~ Mona Van Duyn（1921-2004），美国桂冠诗人（1992-1993）

"Poetry is pleasure. If it’s not pleasure, it’s not worth reading." ~ Louis Jenkins
“诗是乐趣。如果它不是乐趣，那它便不值得阅读。” ~ Louis Jenkins （1942-），美国散文诗人。

"Your relationship with poetry is what it is. You like what you like. It means to you what it means. It isn't a test." ~ British comedian Robert Webb, featured in the BBC2 program, "My Life in Verse"
“你同诗的关系就是这样子。你喜欢你所喜欢的。你意味到它所意味的。它不是一种测试。” ~ Robert Webb （1972-)，英国喜剧演员。

"Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." ~ Carl Sandburg
“诗是风信子和饼乾的合成物。” ~ 卡尔•桑德堡(Carl Sandburg，1878－1967)，美国诗人。

"America may be going to hell in every other way, but fine poems continue to be written now and then." ~ Charles Simic
“美国可能在各方面都很糟糕，但好诗仍不断出现。”~ Charles Simic，美国作家。

"Poetry is life distilled." ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
“诗是生活的提炼。”~ 布鲁克斯（Gwendolyn Brooks，1917-2000），美国女诗人，前任伊利诺州桂冠诗人。

"Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry." ~ Muriel Rukeyser
“吸入经验，呼出诗。”~陆开舍（ Muriel Rukeyser，1913-1980），美国女诗人。

"A poem is never finished, only abandoned." ~ Paul Valery
“一首诗从未完成，只被放弃。”~ 瓦雷里（Paul Valery，1871-1945），法国诗人。

"Poetry: the best words in the best order." ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“诗：最佳语言的最佳安排。” ~ 柯勒律治（Samuel Taylor Coleridge，1772-1834）英国诗人。

"Whenever I read a poem that moves me, I know I'm not alone in the world. I feel a connection to the person who wrote it, knowing that he or she has gone through something similar to what I've experienced , or felt something like what I have felt. And their poem gives me hope and courage, because I know that they survived, that their life force was strong enough to turn experience into words and shape it into meaning and then bring it toward me to share. The gift of their poem enters deeply into me and helps me live and believe in living. ~ Gregory Orr, from "The Making of Poems," broadcast on NPR's All Things Considered, 2/20/06
“每当我读到一首感动我的诗，我就知道我在这世上并不孤单。我感到我同那作者有某种联系，知道他或她曾经历了一些我也经历过，或感到了我曾感到过的的东西。他们的诗给了我希望与勇气，因为我知道他们挺过来了，他们的生命力强大得能把经验变成文字并赋予意义然後带来同我共享。他们诗的礼物深入到我的内里，帮我活下去并相信生活。” ~ Gregory Orr，摘自“诗的完成”，2006年2月20日在国家广播电台的广播。