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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There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working.

有时候我故意不写。例如,我从不在旅行时写作,因为在旅行中,我可以通过观察和倾听学到比工作更多的东西。

When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.

当尤利西斯听到一个史诗诗人唱他自己的故事,然后他暴露了自己的身份,诗人想继续唱下去,尤利西斯不再感兴趣了。这是非常惊人的。

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.

说到原子,语言只能用在诗歌中。诗人也不太关心描写事实,而更关心创造形象。

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.

人生和世界的悲剧不在于人们不认识上帝;可悲的是,认识了他,他们仍然坚持走自己的路。

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

生活近看是悲剧,远看是喜剧。

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

我为什么要写作?因为我发现生活令人不满意。