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。

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I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.

我个人很注重隐私。我对男人非常敏感和害羞。但当我说话的时候,也许在我的脑海中有另一种渠道或另一种方式,我就会转变,变得无忧无虑。

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.

我们说一个带着娃娃的女孩期待着妈妈的到来。也许,更真实的情况是,大多数母亲仍然只是带着玩具的孩子。

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

只有诗人才能写悲剧。因为悲剧只不过是痛苦被诗歌的炼金术转化为狂喜。

I liked the koala, wallaby, and I chilled with a kangaroo a bit. There was a wombat that I quite enjoyed also.

我喜欢考拉,小袋鼠,我和袋鼠一起冷了一下。有一只袋熊我也很喜欢。

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。

A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense.

诗歌传达的信息与其说是信息的来源,不如说是意义的出现。

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

所有的错误都是由思想引起的。如果思维发生了转变,错误行为还会存在吗?

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

如果诗人追求道德目标,他的诗歌力量就会减弱。

I change my mind so much I need two boyfriends and a girlfriend.

我改变主意了,我需要两个男朋友和一个女朋友。

Take a step back, evaluate what is important, and enjoy life.

退一步,评估什么是重要的,享受生活。

An unclean person is universally a slothful one.

不洁净的人通常是懒惰的人。

I know you're tired, but come. This is the way.

我知道你累了,但是过来吧。就是这样。