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

  • -- George Orwell 乔治·奥威尔

语言应该是诗人和体力劳动者共同创造的。

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Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted with a hundred not worth reading. Your true essayist is, in a literary sense, the friend of everybody.

散文家和诗人一样,是天生的而不是后天培养出来的。对于一个值得记住的人来说,这个世界面临着一百种不值得一读的东西。你真正的散文家,在文学意义上,是所有人的朋友。

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.

诗歌记录的情感和情绪超出了正常的语言,只能拼凑在一起,隐喻性地暗示。