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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I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.

我觉得我的散文读起来好像英语是我的第二语言。当我读到一段话的末尾时,我已经在躲避子弹,上气不接下气了。

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

我们不会停止探索,我们所有探索的终点将是我们开始的地方,第一次知道这个地方。

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

诗歌比历史更优美,更富有哲理;因为诗歌表达的是普遍性,而历史只表达的是特殊性。

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

我们用望远镜看过去,用显微镜看现在。因此,目前的情况显然是极其恶劣的。

I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.

我写了很多散文。我只是还没有发表。

Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.

和大多数痛苦一样,它开始于明显的幸福。