You don't need a pony

你不需要一匹小马

to connect you to the unseeable

来连接你和不可见的地方

or an airplane to connect you to the sky.

也不需要一架飞机来连接你和天空。

Necessary it is to love to live

最需要的是为爱而活

and there are many manuals

纵然有许多说明手册

but in all important ways

但在每个重要方面

one is on one's own.

一个人只能靠自己。

You need not cut off your hand.

你不需要砍掉你的手，

No need to eat a bouquet.

不需要吃掉一捧花束。

Your head becomes a peach pit.

你的头成了桃核，

Your tongue a honeycomb.

你的舌头，一个蜂窝。

Necessary it is to live to love,

最需要的是为爱而活

to charge into the burning tower

去冲进火塔

then charge back out

然后再冲出来

and necessary it is to die.

而死也是必要的。

Even for the trees, even for the pony

即使是为了树木，即使是为了小马

connecting you to what can't be grasped.

把你和无法掌握的事物连接起来。

The injured gazelle falls behind the

受伤的羚羊落后于

herd. One last wild enjambment.

羊群。最后一次狂野的跨行。

Because of the sores in his mouth,

因为嘴里的疮，

the great poet struggles with a dumpling.

伟大的诗人与一个饺子缠斗。

His work has enlarged the world

他的作品扩大了世界

but the world is about to stop including him.

但世界即将不再容有他，

He is the tower the world runs out of.

他是世界所耗尽的一座塔。

When something becomes ash,

当一些东西变成灰烬

there's nothing you can do to turn it back.

你没有办法把它变回来。

About this, even diamonds do not lie.

关于这一点，即使钻石也不会说谎。