But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.

  • -- John Updike 约翰·厄普代克

但是,从他的信中摘录的几句话和一两行奇怪的诗句中,这位诗人却在自己的传记中感到窒息。

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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.

我希望我们聪明的年轻诗人能记住我对散文和诗歌的朴素定义;也就是说,散文=文字的最佳顺序;-诗歌=最好的语言,最好的顺序。

The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

传记的艺术不同于地理。地理是关于地图的,而传记是关于人物的。

Not once or twice in our fair island-story, The path of duty was the way to glory.

在我们美丽的岛上, 责任之路是通向光荣之路。

Biography lends to death a new terror.

传记给死亡增添了一种新的恐怖。