Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

  • -- Alfred North Whitehead 阿尔弗雷德北怀特黑德

艺术吸引我们只是因为它揭示了我们最隐秘的自我。

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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.

生命中总有这样的时刻,当一颗心充满了感情,如果它被偶然地摇动了,或者像一颗鹅卵石掉进了它的深处,说了些无心的话,它就会溢出来,它的秘密就会像水一样泼到地上,再也无法收集起来。

A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.

诗人必须是一位心理学家,但必须是一位秘密的心理学家:他应该知道并感受现象的根源,但只呈现现象本身盛开的花朵,或随着现象的消逝而消失。

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

当一个高尚的生命已经准备好步入老年,它所揭示的并不是衰微,而是不朽的最初日子。