We don't read and write poetry because it's cute.　

We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.   

                         And the human race is filled with assion.

And medicine, law, business, engineering,

　　these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life.　

But poetry,  beauty，romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

　　我们读诗写诗，非为它的灵巧．我们读诗写诗，因为我们是人类的一员．

而人类充满了热情．

　　医药，法律，商业，工程，这些都是高贵的理想，并且是维生的必需条件．

　　但是，诗，美，浪漫，爱，这些才是我们生存的意义．

Just when you think you know something,

you have to look at it in another way.

当你认为你知道某件事时，

必须再以不同角度看它。  

Even though it may seem silly or wrong,

you must try!

　　即使那看来似乎愚笨或错误

　　你们都必须尝试！ 　　 　　

Now, when you read,

don't just consider what the author thinks...

consider what you think.

当你阅读时，

别只想到作者的见解…

想想你的见解。 　　

　　Boys, you must

strive to find your own voice.

　　孩子们，你们必须…

　　努力寻找自己的声音。 　　 　　

Because the longer you wait to begin,

the less likely you are

to find it at all.

因为你等候起步的时间愈长

便愈不可能找到它

　　  Thoreau said, “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation.”

　　梭罗说，“大多数人都生活在平静的绝望中。”

Don't be resigned to that.

Break out!

别听任此事发生

要突破！ 　

　　  Come my friend，till it's not too late to seek a newer world.

From my purpose hold to be the other side of sunset.

And though we are not now that strength which as old days moved earth and heaven. That which we are we are,one equal temper of heroic hearts.

Maybe weak by time and fate, but strong is will,

to strive, to seek,to find, and not to yield.  

来吧，我的朋友，寻找更新的世界尚为时不晚。

我决心已定，要驶过夕阳的尽头，

尽管我们不再有昔日的伟力，可以震天撼地，

我们仍然有着同样的英雄般的心。

时间和命运使它衰弱，但坚强意志仍在，

去拼搏，去探索，去发现，永不屈服。 　　

（Why do I stand here? To feel taller than you?）

I stand on my desk to remind myself that we must constantly force ourselves to look at things in a different way.

The world looks different from up here.

我站到讲桌上是想提醒我自己，我们必须时刻用不同的眼光来看待事物。

从这个角度看世界会是另一番风景。