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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When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.

当你老了,头发花白,睡意朦胧,在炉火旁打盹时,请取下这本书,慢慢地读,梦见你曾经眼神柔和,阴影深沉。

I tell myself it does not matter what one reads favorite authors, particular themes as long as we read something. It is not even important to own the books.

我告诉自己,一个人读什么并不重要,重要的是我们读了什么。拥有这些书并不重要。

Don’t try to visualize the great mass audience. There is no such audience—every reader is a different person.

不要试着想象大量的观众。没有这样的读者——每个读者都是不同的人。

Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best.

不管是写弦乐还是别的什么,我都尽量写每个乐器演奏者都能做到最好的。