Short of the impossible, as Yeats put it, the satisfactions we get from a lifetime depend on how high we choose our difficulties.

正如叶芝所言，除却某些不可能的情形，我们人生中所获取的满足皆取决于我们在多高的境界中选择 我们所愿意面对的艰难困苦。

It was " I" , not " we" . The poet was a hero, a seer, a towering figure (Yeats above all), whose themes were history, epic and elegy.

它关乎于“自我”，而不是“我们”。诗人是英雄，是先知，也是豪杰（尤其是耶茨），他们创作的主题是历史，史诗和挽歌。