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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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Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.

每一个诗人……发现自己出生在散文之中。他必须从现实世界的琐碎和阻碍中挣扎出来，进入理想的自由和无限。

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Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.

任何一个坐下来思考有多少人知道他或她恋爱的真实情况的人，都能看出写传记有多难。

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It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

这也是口述传记的乐趣之一，因为读者，而不是编辑，是陪审团。

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If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.

如果史诗是一个明确的物种，那么传奇就不属于它。

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