Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.

  • -- W. H. Auden 奥登

在人们抱怨现代诗歌晦涩难懂之前,他们应该先反省自己的良心,问问自己有多少人、在多少场合与他人真诚而深刻地分享过一些经验。

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People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.

人们经常抱怨音乐太模糊,当他们听到音乐时应该怎么想太模糊,而每个人都能听懂歌词。对我来说,情况恰恰相反,不仅是在整个演讲中,而且在每个词中都是如此。

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.

记忆在很大程度上取决于我们思维的敏锐性、规律性和秩序。许多人抱怨缺乏记忆,当缺陷是在判断;而另一些人,什么也抓不住,什么也抓不住。

The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.

无限!没有其他问题能如此深刻地影响人类的精神。

It's profoundly disorienting to go from zero to celebrity.

从零开始成为名人是非常令人困惑的。