There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.

  • -- Eugenio Montale 蒙塔莱

甚至在散文中也有诗歌,在所有伟大的散文中,不仅仅是功利主义的或说教的,也有诗人用散文写作,或至少用或多或少明显的散文;数以百万计的诗人写的诗与诗歌无关。

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As the son of a feminist mother, I grew up with the idea that work was a sort of salvation for women as it would give them freedom from the domestic grind. Now it seems work is a form of slavery, undertaken out of apparent compulsion rather than choice.

作为一个女权主义者母亲的儿子,我从小就有这样的想法:工作对女性来说是一种救赎,因为它能让她们从家务中解放出来。现在看来,工作是奴役的一种形式,是出于明显的强迫而不是选择。

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

诗歌的诗句,散文的段落,甚至最常被回忆和引用的经文,都被认为是极具音乐性的。

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

我们从与别人的争吵中提炼出来的,是修辞,而从与自己的争吵中提炼出来的,是诗歌。

I sang in my chains like the sea.

我像海一样,在我的锁链里歌唱。