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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The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.

自由主义观点的本质不在于人们持有什么样的观点,而在于人们如何持有这些观点:人们不是武断地持有这些观点,而是试探性地持有这些观点,并意识到新的证据随时可能导致人们抛弃这些观点。

I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves.

在我被遗弃的历史上,我和其他人并没有什么不同。我们都已从地球上分离出来,彼此分离,也就是我们自己。

A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: Either he abandons all earthly interests or else he possesses much which could be abandoned.

一个博学的人有两种幸福的来源:要么他放弃一切世俗的兴趣,要么他拥有许多可以放弃的东西。

Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned.

当被遗弃时,一些鸟类部落会救助和抚养他们自己和其他部落中无助的幼鸟。