After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is the essence which takes its place as life’s redemption.

  • -- Wallace Stevens 华莱士·史蒂文斯

当一个人放弃了对上帝的信仰之后,诗歌就成为了一种本质,它取代了生命的救赎。

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As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.

作为个人和国家,我们现在正遭受着社会自恋的折磨。我们祖先深爱的回声,原始美洲,已经被遗弃了。我们爱上了自己的形象,爱上了自己创造的形象,而这些形象原来就是我们自己的形象。

Well-founded fear, which takes one through the valley of the shadow of death without abandoning one there, is what makes the worst of worse journeys; the situation is made all the more intense when the fear is somehow mingled with delight.

有充分根据的恐惧,它带你穿过死亡阴影的山谷而不把你抛弃在那里,这是最糟糕的旅程中最糟糕的部分;当恐惧与喜悦交织在一起时,情况就更加紧张了。

My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments.

我爸爸为我牺牲了很多东西。他放弃了一份很有前途、很赚钱的军官工作,只是为了能继续帮助我下棋,陪我参加锦标赛。

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

艺术永远不会结束,只会被抛弃。