I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

  • -- William Butler Yeats 叶芝

我认为你可以把艺术,无论优劣,留给人类的良知去决定。

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An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

一个人如果违反了良心告诉他是不公正的法律,并且心甘情愿地接受监禁的惩罚,以唤起社会对其不公正的良心,那么他实际上是在表达对法律的最高尊重。

Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home.

在人类所有的激情中,对新奇事物的热爱支配着人们的思想。为了寻找这一点,我们从一个领域漫游到另一个领域。我们的舰队满载着蠢货返航。

I don't really need to stand out, there's room for everyone. Although I haven't built a niche yet, I'm just writing love songs.

我不需要太显眼,每个人都有位置。虽然我还没有建立一个利基,我只是写情歌。

I do like to keep mementos from my work, whether they be photos, the backs of make-up chairs or even props and clothes.

我喜欢在工作中保留一些纪念品,不管是照片、化妆椅的靠背,甚至是道具和衣服。

We will not, on the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvation.

我们不会在金钱的祭坛上抵押我们的良心,抵押我们的信仰,抵押我们的救恩。

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

把人类想得不好而不希望他们受到伤害,这也许是最高的智慧和美德。