It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practising it.

  • -- W. H. Auden 奥登

我们的文化中有一个可悲的事实,诗人写诗或谈论他的艺术比实践它能挣更多的钱。

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It is a sobering thought that each of us gives his hearers and his readers a chance to look into the inner working of his mind when he speaks or writes.

这是一个发人深省的想法,我们每个人都给他的听众和读者一个机会,看看他的内心工作时,他说或写。

The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.

作家的一生是悲剧性的:我们越进步,要走的路就越远,要说的东西越多,要说的时间就越少。