For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.

  • -- Robert Penn Warren 沃伦

因为什么是诗歌,但却是一种危险的自我理解的尝试:它是自传中最深刻的部分。

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Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time.

最终,我相信,目前试图用人造计算机来理解大脑的尝试将被认为是巨大的浪费时间。人造计算机可以出色地执行一些与有意识的人相同的外部任务。

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

我所有的照片都是围绕着陷入困境的想法而创作的,所以给了我一个机会,让我在努力表现成一个正常的小绅士的过程中,表现得极其严肃。

I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have any reason to be proud of that.

我想为自己写了一些会被人记住的诗而自豪,但我永远不知道自己是否有理由为此而自豪。

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

持续的善意可以成就很多事。当太阳使冰融化时,善意会导致误解、不信任和敌意消失。

Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.

每首诗在“成为”中都产生了它所产生的法则:将法则扩展到其他诗中永远不会完全采用。

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

一个错误不会因为成倍的传播而变成真理,也不会因为没有人看到它而变成错误。