Milton seemed to have decided against marriage as he was making the decision to wed himself to his poetry instead.

那里弥尔顿似乎已经决定不结婚了,因为他已经下定决心要致力于诗歌创作。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

because after it's been created, it's apart from them now.

因为作品创作出来之后，是独立于创作者的。

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It usually follows from this that somebody like this points out that whereas we all know that a democratic society is the best society to live in, poetry prefers feudal society: it makes better poetry.

赞成这种观点的人指出,虽然我们都知道,民主社会是最适合生存的，诗歌却更喜欢封建社会：,因为封建社会更适合诗歌创作。

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I could never make a merit of being caviare to the crowd the way my quasi-friend Pound does. I want to reach out, if it were a thing I could do by taking thought.

我不能因为创作大众的阳春白雪而夸耀,就像我的半个朋友庞德一样，我希望伸展开来，如果这是我动脑经就能完成的事。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Now I am mentioning these dates here because the dates on which Milton wrote and published his poems, the temporal sequence of these publications, have a peculiar and particular importance for the poet.

我为什么要在这里提到这些日期,因为创作和出版诗的日期，和当时的顺序，对一个诗人有特殊的重要性。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

in fact I want to use the word stitched together, because in the Ancient Greek world the people who sang, recited, created the poems of the Homeric epics were called rhapsodes, and that means stitchers of songs.

事实上,我想使用"串联"这个词,因为在古希腊,那些歌唱,朗诵,和创作《荷马史诗》的人,被称为吟诵者,就是说把诗歌串联在一起传唱

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