The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.

  • -- Frederick William Robertson 弗雷德里克·威廉·罗伯逊

诗歌的作用不在于使我们准确地思考,而在于使我们真实地感受。

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Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

绘画是最神奇的媒介。每次我去博物馆,看到有人用另一种方式在平坦的表面上擦上有色的泥土,在没有空间的地方创造出空间,或者让你想到一种生活体验,这种超越感对我来说真的很神奇。

An office boy in London was the lowest of the low. The office boy was the tea boy. He would be the dog's body: It means someone who would do anything at all. I was quite prepared for that and enjoyed it.

伦敦的一个勤杂工是最低等的。勤杂工就是茶水工。他会是狗的身体:意思是什么都愿意做的人。我对此早有准备,也很享受。

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

诗歌是强烈情感的自然流露,它源于平静中回忆的情感。

We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office.

我们必须重视权威。我们必须重视办公室,无论是在职还是在职。

With my poems, I finally won even my mother. The longest wooing of my life.

用我的诗,我终于赢得了甚至我的母亲。我一生中最长的追求。

Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one.

因为真正的怀疑态度是非常不确定的。