The Danger of Wisdom by Jack Gilbert

我们学会没有激情的生活。
合乎情理。我们饿了
在世界这个巨大的谷仓中。
我丰富地为我们温和的老年储藏。
这就是剥夺我们的力量。
就像济慈听医生说结核病
最好的疗法
是每天仅吃一片面包和
一段鱼肉。
济慈把自己饿死了因为他
不顾一切地渴望
尽情享用芬妮.布朗。
艾默生和他的妻子决定
有节制地做爱，以便
积蓄他的激情。我们被教导适度。
智慧地生活。
We learn to live without passion.
To be reasonable. We go hungry
amid the giant granaries
this world is. We store up plenty
for when we are old and mild.
It is our strength that deprives us.
Like Keats listening to the doctor
who said the best thing for
tuberculosis was to eat only one
slice of bread and a fragment
of fish each day. Keats starved
himself to death because he yearned
so desperately to feast on Fanny Brawne.
Emerson and his wife decided to make
love sparingly in order to accumulate
his passion. We are taught to be
moderate. To live intelligently.