He nurses an aspiration to be a poet.

他心怀当诗人的愿望。

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Not every man can be a poet.

并非人人都可以成为诗人。

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I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist.

我将会是一个诗人，一个作家，剧作家。

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Bessie Taylor Gwynn taught him to believe he could be a poet or a writer.

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No English poet before Milton ever suggested that he had been chosen by God at birth to be a poet.

在弥尔顿之前没有英国诗人敢说,自己是被上帝选中去做诗人的。

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Now, you might say, "I could be a poet and what does that have to do with finance?"

也许你会问,我想做个诗人,这跟金融有关系吗

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His own experiences in the next war, he always said, made him decide to be a poet.

ECONOMIST: Charles Causley

At this very moment, somewhere out there, a young woman is telling her parents that she wants to be a poet.

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And so, although possessed of a remarkable lyric gift from an early age, Matthew could never wholeheartedly believe that to be a poet was sufficient.

ECONOMIST: Victorian poetry