随身典藏（中英文对照）

我不愿用世俗的欢娱来换取内心的悲戚；也不愿让我忧伤的眼泪变成浅薄的嬉笑。我宁愿生活里有眼泪也有微笑。眼泪纯净内心，让我明白生活的奥秘；微笑带来良友，是我荣耀上帝的印记。眼泪使我体会心碎之人的忧伤；微笑是我快乐生活的模样。与其在绝望和挣扎中苟活，不如在希翼和盼望中死亡。我渴慕爱情，崇尚完美，因为邪恶使人肮脏污秽。我听过充满渴望的轻唱，它胜过世上最美的乐章。夜幕降临，花儿紧锁心房，拥抱着盼望进入梦乡。晨曦初露，花儿轻启香唇，接受太阳的亲吻。在花儿渴望和满足的生命里，有眼泪和微笑的哲理。大海的水汽蒸发，汇集成云彩。它飘过丘陵和山谷，在和风吹拂下滋生雨露，雨露飘落大地，汇成小溪和河流，奔回大海，它自己的家乡。云彩离别和重逢的经历，有眼泪和微笑的哲理。人的灵魂如同云彩，他告别自己的居所来到大千世界，飘过忧伤的高山，和喜乐的平原。面对死亡的微风，他坦然回乡，那是充满爱和美的海洋，那是上帝的胸膛。I would not exchange the sorrows of my heart for the joys of the multitude.And I would not have the tears that sadness makes to flow from my every part turn into laughter.I would that my life remain a tear and a smile.A tear to purify my heart and give me understanding.Of life's secrets and hidden things.A smile to draw me nigh to the sons of my kind and to be a symbol of my glorification of the gods.A tear to unite me with those of broken heart;A smile to be a sign of my joy in existence.I would rather that I died in yearning and longing than that I live weary and despairing.I want the hunger for love and beauty to be in the depths of my spirit,for I have seen those who are satisfied the most wretched of people.I have heard the sigh of those in yearning and Longing, and it is sweeter than the sweetest melody.With evening's coming the flower folds her petals and sleeps, embracing her longing.At morning's approach she opens her lips to meet the sun's kiss.The life of a flower is longing and fulfillment.A tear and a smile.The waters of the sea become vapor and rise and come together and area cloud.And the cloud floats above the hills and valleys until it meets the gentle breeze, then falls weeping to the fields and joins with brooks and rivers to Return to the sea, its home.The life of clouds is a parting and a meeting.A tear and a smile.And so does the spirit become separated from the greater spirit to move in the world of matter and pass as a cloud over the mountain of sorrow and the plains of joy to meet the breeze of death and return whence it came.To the ocean of Love and Beauty----to God.

My glass shall not persuade me I am old, So long as youth and thou are of one date; But when in thee time's furrows I behold, Then look I death my days should expiate. For all that beauty that doth cover thee Is but the seemly raiment of my heart, Which in thy breast doth live, as thine in me: How can I then be elder than thou art? O, therefore, love, be of thyself so wary As I, not for myself, but for thee will; Bearing thy heart, which I will keep so chary As tender nurse her babe from faring ill. Presume not on thy heart when mine is slain; Thou gavest me thine, not to give back again.

God finds himself by creating.

The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.

译文：

星星不像萤火虫那样羞怯于显现

意义似乎有误。就英文来看，意为，星星并不羞于像萤火虫那样显现，意即，星星虽然光芒巨大，在遥远的眼中却只是像萤火虫一样的光辉，但星星并不在意。完全反了。

The mind,sharp but not broad,sticks at every point but does not move.

原译文：

这颗心是尖锐的，而不是宽阔的，他执着在每一点上，但却不行动。/

试改译：“徒具犀利却并不广博的心智，总是执着于每一点，却并不转换立场。”这是我自己的理解，恐怕少了诗味。

Life finds its wealth by the claims of the world and its worth by the claims of love