The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.

  • -- Shirin Ebadi 西林·埃巴迪

文化相对主义只是侵犯人权的借口。

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I want my books to last, to stand the test of time, and to do that I focus on the forces that shape the subject - the cultural and sociological geography - to capture them in a way that will explain them no matter what they are doing.

我希望我的书能经久不衰,经受住时间的考验,为了做到这一点,我将重点放在塑造这个主题的力量上——文化和社会学地理——以一种无论它们在做什么都能解释的方式来捕捉它们。

If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it's really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting.

如果我用十四行诗的形式写,就会变形。或者,如果我有一些关于换行的好主意,我把它用在一首诗里,但它真的不适合那首诗,但我想要它,那就会扭曲。

Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time.

永远不要用“听众”这个词。“除非诗人是为了钱而写作,否则公众的想法在我看来就是错误的。诗人没有“听众”。他们一直在和一个人说话。

It's ironic that in our culture everyone's biggest complaint is about not having enough time; yet nothing terrifies us more than the thought of eternity.

讽刺的是,在我们的文化中,每个人最大的抱怨就是没有足够的时间;然而,没有什么比想到永生更让我们害怕的了。