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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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Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.

诗人说过，有孩子的原因是为了让自己长生不老。永生?现在我有五个孩子了，我唯一的希望就是在我死之前他们都离开家。

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Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.

诗歌是一种艺术，它以最有力、最愉快的方式选择和排列思想的符号，以激发想象力。

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A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

放债的比奴隶主还坏;因为主人只欠你一个人的债，债主却欠你的体面，并且能制伏你。

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The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

我们成功的程度只受我们想象力的限制，任何善意的行为，无论多么小，都不会被浪费。

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One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.

一个人的尊严可能会受到侵犯、破坏和残酷的嘲笑，但只有交出尊严，才能被夺走。

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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

不成熟的诗人模仿;成熟的诗人偷窃。

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