I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

  • -- Socrates 苏格拉底

我断定,不是智慧使诗人能够写诗,而是一种本能或灵感,就像你在预言家和先知身上看到的那样,他们传达出所有崇高的信息,却一点也不知道它们的意思。

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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

只有冒着生命危险,从一个小时到另一个小时,我们才能活下去。通常,我们事先对一个未经证实的结果的信念是使结果成为现实的唯一因素。

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

人类学家是连接诗人和科学家的纽带;尽管他们在原始民族中的野外工作常常使他们忘记了科学的语言。

The more you become aware of and respond to the needs of others, the richer your own life becomes

你对他人的需求了解得越多,回应得越多,你自己的生活就会变得越丰富

All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.

所有诗人的妻子都过着堕落的生活,他们的丈夫却把她们看得像刀子一样。