I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it.... We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

  • -- C. Day Lewis C.戴刘易斯

我不会坐在书桌前,把我头脑中已经清楚的东西写进诗里。如果它在我的脑海中是清晰的,我应该没有动机或需要写它……我们写作不是为了被人理解;我们写作是为了理解。

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Modern tragic writers have to write short stories; if they wrote long stories…cheerfulness would creep in. Such stories are like stings; brief, but purely painful.

现代悲剧作家不得不写短篇小说;如果他们写长篇故事,快乐就会悄然而至。这样的故事就像刺;短暂,但纯粹是痛苦。

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'

我死的时候,愿人说:‘他的罪是朱红的,他的书是被人诵读的。’