The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

  • -- George Santayana 乔治·桑塔亚纳

诗人的想象力支配现实的程度,说到底,正是衡量他的重要性和尊严的准确尺度。

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As more men become more educated and women get educated, the value system has to be more enhanced and the respect for human dignity and human life is made better.

随着越来越多的男性受教育程度提高,女性受教育程度提高,价值体系必须得到进一步加强,对人的尊严和生命的尊重也必须得到改善。

I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.

我一直是个仰慕者。我认为,如果一个人想有所成就,那么钦佩别人的天赋是必不可少的。我不知道没有它我会在哪里。

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

人类有了想象力来弥补自己的不足。他的幽默感是用来安慰他的。

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

官员的尊严往往与任职国家的重要性成反比。

That is the definition of faith -- acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

这就是信仰的定义——接受我们认为是真实的东西,接受我们无法证明的东西。

Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.

生活在那样的音高,那样的边缘,在某种程度上是很多诗人都在从事的事情。