在Retro 高人线上看到一首诗，很喜欢。拙译存在这里。
Retro: 这诗，言志，舍身求仁之大志，耐人寻味。
The Novelist
W. H. Auden
小说家
W。H。奥登
云天译
Encased in talent like a uniform,
The rank of every poet is well known;
They can amaze us like a thunderstorm,
Or die so young, or live for years alone.
裹在才华里象穿了制服一般
每个诗人的级别都众所周知；
他们会象暴雨般让我们惊叹，
或英年早逝或多年独守孤寂。
They can dash forward like hussars: but he
Must struggle out of his boyish gift and learn
How to be plain and awkward, how to be
One after whom none think it worth to turn.
他们会象轻骑兵般冲锋向前，
他必须挣脱少年幼稚的天赋，
学会如何变得既笨拙又平凡，
学会怎样变得毫不引人注目。
For, to achieve his lightest wish, he must
Become the whole of boredom, subject to
Vulgar complaints like love, among the Just
Be just, among the Filthy filthy too,
为了要实现他最微小的憧憬，
他必须变得彻头彻尾的荒唐，
并容忍粗俗的抱怨诸如爱情；
公正中公正污浊中一同肮脏。
And in his own weak person, if he can,
Must suffer dully all the wrongs of Man.
假如微弱的他能够尽力尝试，
他必须忍受人类所有的过失。
Nathan Milstein plays Massenet Meditation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXuzLRVi6qk&feature=related
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