None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

  • -- Edith Hamilton 依迪丝·汉密尔顿

只有诗人才能写悲剧。因为悲剧只不过是痛苦被诗歌的炼金术转化为狂喜。

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If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack is just a tragedy or whether that attack becomes an all-out disaster.

如果发生恐怖袭击,人们的反应将决定这次袭击是一场悲剧,还是一场全面的灾难。

It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn’t know; and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.

这是世界的悲剧,没有人知道他不知道什么;一个人知道的越少,他就越确信自己知道一切。

I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.

我喜欢认为我是我们这个时代的诗人。

If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.

如果你不愿意写下来并签上名,那就别说出来。

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

如果你不喜欢别人的故事,那就写自己的。

Poets have a license to lie.

诗人有撒谎的权利。