There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time."

  • -- Abraham Lincoln 亚伯拉罕·林肯

还有一位老诗人,我不记得他的名字了,他说:“真理是时间的女儿。”

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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!

所以人们认为我一直在谎报年龄?是记录错了。我从来没有告诉过任何人我有多大。他们一问我,我就说:‘这不关你的事。所以这意味着我从来没有谎报过自己的年龄。现在这是真的!

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.

冬天不要砍树。不要在情绪低落的时候做出消极的决定。永远不要在你心情最糟的时候做最重要的决定。等待。要有耐心。暴风雨会过去的。春天就要来了。

There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now.

在我内心深处,我希望自己从来没有在公开场合就任何话题说过一个字。那么我就可以成为一个饱受折磨的诗人,这有很多好处。但是现在停下来太晚了。

Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.

几乎每年,国会都会通过另一项犯罪法案——花费数十亿美元建造更多的监狱,为社会伤疤贴上更多的创可贴。

You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.

你会发现,诗人或他那个时代最重要的船长,就像你会做的那样,会讨价还价或削土豆皮。

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

人老了,就像一堆别人寄来的信。我们不再是过去的我们,我们已经到来。

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

我有穿工作服的朋友,我不会用他们的友谊来换取世界各国国王的青睐。

I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.

我不断地在我的女儿身上看到我自己,在我和她身上看到我的母亲。血腥的地狱。

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

愚者在远处寻找幸福,智者将幸福种在他的脚下。

I was the angriest daughter on earth, and also, one of the most devoted.

我是世界上最愤怒的女儿,也是最忠诚的女儿之一。

I enjoy my fun time and everything like that but I love what I do.

我享受我的快乐时光,但我爱我所做的一切。

Those moments you randomly remember and you can’t stop smiling.

那些时刻你随机地记住,你无法停止微笑。

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

对于以上帝为原因的结果来说,自然是一个好名字。

If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.

如果诗人是现实主义者,他们就不会是诗人。

Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?

谁说过快乐没有作用?

I'll always remember Maryland for its heart.

我将永远记住马里兰的心脏。

One goat cannot carry another goat's tail.

一只山羊驮不住另一只山羊的尾巴。

Old age is a shipwreck.

老年是一艘沉船。