No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern.

  • -- Thomas Harrison 汤姆斯·哈里森

没有任何一种艺术形式能像诗歌那样,把语言的原创性作为其本质和持久的关注重点。

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I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough.

我继承了一个病态的经济,并把一个健康的经济传给了下一代。但我始终感到遗憾的是,在这期间,我没有足够的资源实施我非常关心的教育和社会变革;我只做了一个开始,这是不够的。

For you, the state is an entity with purposes of its own that the people can be required to serve. For us the word is only a label for the arrangements by which we the people delegate to some among us responsibility for things that concern us in common.

对你们来说,国家是一个有自己目的的实体,人民可以被要求为之服务。对我们来说,这个词只是一个标签,用来表示我们人民把共同关心的事情的责任委托给我们中间的一些人所作的安排。

Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.

谁会为这个女人伤心呢?对我们来说,她不是太微不足道了吗?然而在我心里,我永远不会否认她,因为她选择了回头而遭受了死亡。

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

有一种恒久不变的美,可能会被那些愿意看到事物本来面目的人所欣赏,他们只要求看到,不要求任何报酬。