When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.

  • -- Stephen Spender 斯蒂芬·斯彭德

当你阅读和理解一首诗,理解它丰富和正式的含义,那么你就掌握了一点混乱。

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To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative.

说一首诗是绝对的就等于什么也没说,因为墨迹是绝对的。然而,你把你喜欢的放进它。所以它变得完全相对。

I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.

我很难说服学生们,他们去北非是为了了解北非人,而不是为了了解他们自己。

A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story.

作家的作品往往反映了他或她在生活中所接触到的东西;诗歌或故事的基础。

The most difficult phase of life is not when no one understands you; it is when you don't understand yourself.

人生最艰难的阶段不是没有人懂你;而是当你不了解自己的时候。