Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable.

  • -- Harold Bloom 哈罗德·布鲁姆

每个人都希望天才失败;它让我们的平庸变得更容易忍受。

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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

我断定,不是智慧使诗人能够写诗,而是一种本能或灵感,就像你在预言家和先知身上看到的那样,他们传达出所有崇高的信息,却一点也不知道它们的意思。

If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.

如果我每次坐下来写歌的时候都等待灵感的话,我今天可能会成为一名水管工。