Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

  • -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge 柯勒律治

想象的作品应该用通俗易懂的语言来写;它们越纯粹是想象出来的,就越需要简单明了。

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I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.

我呆呆地坐着,呆呆地望着,呆呆地望着,茫然不知所措,我在学习一门新的语言,或者更确切地说,是一门用不同方言讲的同一种语言。我坐着的那片大树林依然如此,声音可能还没有诞生。

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.

没有任何一种人类传家宝能像艺术和语言那样捕捉过去。

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

我们忘记了重要的是从想象开始的。

Dreamer in Exile.

梦想家流亡。