Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

  • -- Thomas Babington Macaulay 麦考莱

也许没有人可以成为一个诗人,甚至享受诗歌,没有一定的不健全的头脑。

相关名言

I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable!

我喜欢运动。但是如果让我在两个场景中做出选择,一个是下雨的场景,一个是非常冷的场景,一个是淋湿了的场景,一个是在实验室里玩恐龙蛋的场景,我很可能会选择后者。它更暖和,而且一般来说更舒服!

The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you look closer and that's what humans are like - quite mysterious creatures, hard to pinpoint.

我喜欢的表演很难读懂,或者模棱两可,或者中间偏左,因为它让你看得更近,这就是人类的样子——相当神秘的生物,很难精确定位。

Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream.

已婚或未婚,年轻或年老,诗人或工人,你仍然是一个梦想家,总有一天你会知道,并感觉到,你的生活只是一个梦。

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.

一个人对自己的性格、信息和能力的赞扬,也许比他所谴责的更可靠。

His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.

他对某些美好信条的信仰也许是错误的;我敢肯定,他的一生总是对的。

I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.

我是一个受害者导向型的人。我希望看到受害者知道他们有发言权。

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

诗人是这样的人,他架起通向星星的梯子——一边爬梯子一边拉提琴。

A lot of the high-level sports are really in your mind.

很多高水平的运动都在你的脑海中。

I study to learn, to be an educated person.

我学习是为了学习,为了成为一个受过教育的人。

The moment of change is the only poem.

改变的时刻是唯一的诗篇。

Is there no way out of the mind?

难道没有办法摆脱这种想法吗?

Prose talks and poetry sings.

散文会说话,诗歌会唱歌。