I don't think one can accurately measure the historical effectiveness of a poem; but one does know, of course, that books influence individuals; and individuals, although they are part of large economic and social processes, influence history. Every mass is after all made up of millions of individuals.

  • -- Denise Levertov 丹妮斯·莱维托芙

我不认为人们可以准确地衡量一首诗的历史效力;但人们当然知道,书籍影响着个人;个人,虽然他们是大的经济和社会进程的一部分,影响着历史。每个群体毕竟是由数百万个体组成的。

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The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.

对一个人来说,最好的书并不总是那些智者推荐的书,而是那些能满足他特殊需求的书,能满足他头脑中自然的渴望,因此能唤起兴趣,吸引思想。

Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, ut more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.

科学不再像过去那样依附于“真理”,而是更倾向于直接的“有效性”,现在正滑向衰落,这是公民的失宠。

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

如果我们想重新发现自己,活出真实的自己,我们需要找到勇气对那些对我们无益的人和事说不。

Dissecting a book was the same as making sense of life. You have to find a way to interpret life, or you'll go nuts.

解剖一本书就像理解生活一样。你必须找到一种方式来诠释生活,否则你会发疯的。

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

有一千棵树砍去邪恶的枝子,有一棵树砍去邪恶的根茎。

We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.

我们看到我们这一代最优秀的头脑被诗歌阅读的无聊所摧毁。

For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: it might have been.

因为在所有悲伤的语言或文字中,最悲伤的是:它可能是。

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

永远记住你是独一无二的。就像其他人一样。