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They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.

  • -- Tom Glazer 汤姆·格雷泽

他们说诗人主要是为自己写作;如果有人喜欢它，那很好，如果不喜欢，也没关系;当然，对我来说不是。

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There's a bizarre insistence on how a story should be. 'The protagonist must be sympathetic!' they say. Whatever that means. I never engage in that discussion. I never use that word, 'sympathetic.' I just know 'interesting.'

对于一个故事应该是什么样的，有一种奇怪的坚持。“主角必须有同情心!””他们说。不管这意味着什么。我从不参与那种讨论。我从来没用过‘同情’这个词。我只知道“有意思”。

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Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest.

旅人就像诗人一样，多半是一种愤怒的民族。我每天都要大发雷霆，向总督和他的儿子证明我是认真的，他们对我殷勤备至。

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Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

人类学家是连接诗人和科学家的纽带;尽管他们在原始民族中的野外工作常常使他们忘记了科学的语言。

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