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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I just sat down and thought, I'm going to write a song today, I'm going to give it a try. So I just stuck it on a tape like everything else. That was just another song.

我只是坐下来想,我今天要写一首歌,我要试一试。所以我把它像其他东西一样粘在磁带上。那只是另一首歌。

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach.

必须记住,生活的悲剧不在于没有达到你的目标。人生的悲剧就在于没有目标。

Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.

成为一名作曲家并不依赖于观众或其他乐队成员或相机。我可以坐在房间里写歌。

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

雕刻家是对事物的形状感兴趣的人,是文字中的诗人,是声音中的音乐家。

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time."

还有一位老诗人,我不记得他的名字了,他说:“真理是时间的女儿。”

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

悲剧是生者获得智慧的工具,而不是生活的指南。