The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

  • -- T. S. Eliot T.S.艾略特

对于诗人来说,最重要的是尽可能少写。

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There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.

仍然有一种感觉,认为女性的写作属于较低的写作类别,认为在育儿室或卧室里发生的事情不如战场上发生的事情重要,认为女性所知道的知识属于较低的知识类别。

I know what the important things are in life. I know that just because I pretend to be someone else for two hours on the silver screen doesn't make me a better person than the next man. So, I mind all those things. Simple things.

我知道生命中最重要的是什么。我知道,仅仅因为我在银幕上假扮了两个小时的别人,并不能让我成为比别人更好的人。所以,我介意这些。简单的事情。

Adoptive parents are taking on enormous responsibility, both emotionally and financially. Quite frankly, they need as much disclosure as possible about the child's background and health to assure the best fit and be prepared.

养父母在情感和经济上都承担着巨大的责任。坦率地说,他们需要尽可能多地透露孩子的背景和健康状况,以确保孩子最健康,并做好准备。

I don't know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets - the established poets. There was a lot of pretty boring stuff to sort of put up with and to add to, to make something vital from.

我不知道年轻的诗人是否读了很多,你知道,著名的诗人。有很多很无聊的东西要忍受,要添加,要做一些重要的东西。

Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.

医生是这样的人,他们开的药他们所知甚少,医治的疾病他们所知甚少,对人类他们所知甚少。

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

关于黑人历史,真相比你能编造的任何东西都要复杂得多。

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.

由于读得太多,睡得太少,他的头脑变得迟钝,失去了判断力。

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

一个人从没有违反过一条法律,却仍然是个私生子,这是可能的。

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

你将学到的最伟大的事情就是去爱和被爱。

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

语言应该是诗人和体力劳动者共同创造的。