The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.

  • -- Lionel Trilling 特里林

诗人控制着自己的幻想,而他的幻想又恰恰是神经质的标志。

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All of the problems we're facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It's called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics only works in a fantasy world. It doesn't work in reality.

我们面临的所有债务问题都是人为造成的。我们创造了它们。这叫做幻想经济学。幻想经济学只适用于幻想世界。这在现实中行不通。

We go on dates thinking that person is our future husband or wife, without getting to know them, as we live in a fantasy and an illusion of romance.

我们在约会时认为那个人是我们未来的丈夫或妻子,却不了解他们,因为我们生活在幻想和浪漫的幻想中。

A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest.

在一种文化中,内疚会自动被认为是神经质和不健康的,而这种文化设计了一种非常聪明的方式来保护自己的利益。

So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that, then I snap out of it.

所以我认为神经质就是花太多时间去纠正错误。当我感觉到我在做的时候,我就会振作起来。

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.

我看不出一个人怎么能一边从事物理学的前沿工作,一边写诗。他们是对立的。

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

诗人享有无与伦比的特权,能够随心所欲地做自己和他人。