I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.

  • -- Mary Oliver 玛丽·奥利弗

我阅读一个人游泳的方式,以挽救他或她的生命。我也是这么写的。

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To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.

写出值得出版的东西,找到诚实的人出版它,让明智的人阅读它,这是成为作家的三大困难。

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

文学是一种人类活动,它对多样性、可能性、复杂性和艰巨性进行了最全面、最精确的描述。

To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one's ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humanity.

看这张纸就像把贝壳举到耳边,被人类的怒吼淹没。

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

话说反弹。如果你让他们说,他们会做他们想做和必须做的事。