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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They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it's time for special counsel.

他们把你拖到那里,你知道,一周又一周,在这样的星际室里。最后他们说,我们什么也没找到,但现在是特别检察官的时候了。

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.

歌词必须有保险。这就是为什么诗人一般都是拙劣的抒情作家,因为语言太丰富了。你会被它淹没。

I am, as they say, the classic starving artist.

正如他们所说,我是一个典型的饥饿艺术家。

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

不成熟的诗人模仿;成熟的诗人偷窃。