Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

  • -- Gustave Flaubert 福楼拜

语言是一只裂开的水壶,我们在上面敲出曲调,让熊跟着跳舞,而我们却时时刻刻想让星星怜悯。

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We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.

我们是此刻的主人,不仅是此刻,而且还有很长一段时间。

I have a tight family group that's really important to me. I don't want to work all the time.

我有一个紧密的家庭团体,这对我来说真的很重要。我不想一直工作。

I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.

我决心给意第绪语一个争取生存的机会。

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

诗人的勇气是把通向疯狂的门半开着。

Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

诗歌是能穿透石头的流动的声音。

We can only think in a language that we master.

我们只能用自己掌握的语言来思考。