No country for old man, the 80th Oscar best picture, was shoot by Coen Brothers. Actually, I didn't understand what the movie intended to say for the first time, but finally I realized the director try to leave us much space to think. It should be a thumb-up movie and worths the Oscar. Find more..... 

 Sailing to Byzantium

William Butler Yeats，1865-1939——叶芝

   I
That is no country for old men. The young
In one another's arms, birds in the trees
--- Those dying generations --- at their song,
The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,
Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long
Whatever is begotten, born, and dies.
Caught in that sensual music all neglect
Monuments of unageing intellect. 

  II
An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress,
Nor is there singing school but studying
Monuments of its own magnificence;
And therefore I have sailed the seas and come
To the holy city of Byzantium. 

III
O sages standing in God's holy fire
As in the gold mosaic of a wall，
Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,
And be the singing-masters of my soul.
Consume my heart away; sick with desire
And fastened to a dying animal
It knows not what it is; and gather me
Into the artifice of eternity. 

IV
Once out of nature I shall never take
My bodily form from any natural thing,
But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make
Of hammered gold and gold enamelling
To keep a drowsy Emperor awake;
Or set upon a golden bough to sing
To lords and ladies of Byzantium
Of what is past, or passing, or to come. 

           驶向拜占庭 
      [英国]叶芝 
      一
      那绝非老年人适宜之乡。青年人
互相拥抱着，树林中的鸟雀
        ——那些濒死的世代——在歌吟，
          鲑鱼回游的瀑布，鲭鱼麋集的海河，
       水族、走兽、飞禽，整夏都在赞颂
萌发、出生和死亡的一切。
它们都沉溺于那肉感的音乐
而忽视了不朽的理性的杰作。 

   二
  一个老人不过是无用的东西，
象一根竹竿上的破旧衣裳。
    除非灵魂拍手歌唱，在凡胎肉体里
更高声地为每一件破旧衣裳歌唱，
而且没有一所歌唱学校不研习
自己的辉煌的不朽乐章；
因此我扬帆驶过波涛万顷，
来到这神圣之城拜占庭。 

 三
呵，伫立在上帝的圣火之中
一如在金镶壁画中的圣贤们，
走出圣火来吧，在旋锥中转动，
来教导我的灵魂练习歌吟。
耗尽我的心吧；它思欲成病，
紧附于一只垂死的动物肉身，
迷失了本性，请把我收集
到那永恒不朽的技艺里。 

 四
一旦超脱自然，我将绝不再采用
任何自然物做我身体的外形，
而只要那种古希腊金匠运用
鎏金和镀金法制作的完美造型，
以使睡意昏沉的皇帝保持清醒；
或栖止在一根金色的枝头唱吟，
把过去，现在，或将来的事情
唱给拜占庭的诸候和贵妇们听。