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To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.
把一个身体和一个完美的形式赋予一个人的思想，这——也只有这——就是成为一个艺术家。
— Jacques Louis David 雅克·路易·大卫
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更多好句 ↗Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.
痛苦在诗歌中被过滤，最终成为快乐。
Mark Strand
马克·斯特兰德
Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.
诗人在用词方面经历了一段非常艰苦的学徒期。
Helen Dunmore
海伦·邓莫尔
The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
译者的任务是用自己的语言创造出与原文相同的张力。那是很难的!
Manuel Puig
曼努埃尔·普伊格
Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.
原罪是关于人的一件事，它使人能够设想自己的完美，却不能实现它。
Reinhold Niebuhr
莱茵霍尔德·尼布赫
Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.
诗就像梦:你把你不知道你知道的东西放进了诗里。
Adrienne Rich
艾德里安娜·里奇
When you're stuck, and sure you've written absolutely garbage, force yourself to finish and then decide to fix or scrap it - or you will never know if you can.
当你陷入困境，并且确信你写的东西完全是垃圾时，强迫自己完成它，然后决定修复或废弃它——否则你永远也不知道自己是否能做到。
Jodi Picoult
乔迪·皮考尔