Language is like drinking from one's own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time.

  • -- Simon Van Booy 西蒙·凡·布伊

语言就像喝自己在静水中的倒影。我们只能从它身上得到我们当时的样子。

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The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one's control, is very different from the psychology of a language which one accepts of one's free will.

一种语言的心理,以这样或那样的方式,由于无法控制的因素而强加于人,与一种语言的心理是非常不同的,这种语言的心理是一个人接受自己的自由意志。

If I'd had more time or been a better writer, I would have tried to put the same ideas and experiences into a novel. But I didn't so I slapped it up on the Web.

如果我有更多的时间或者成为一个更好的作家,我就会把同样的想法和经历写进一部小说里。但我没有,所以我把它放在网上。

When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.

当事情发生时——你问自己为什么是今天,为什么不是明天,为什么不是昨天?这就是时间最神奇的地方。

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

诗歌应该有所帮助,不仅要精炼当时的语言,而且要防止它变化太快。