Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.

  • -- William Shenstone 威廉·申斯通

每一位优秀的诗人都有一位批评家,但事实并非如此。

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When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.

当尤利西斯听到一个史诗诗人唱他自己的故事,然后他暴露了自己的身份,诗人想继续唱下去,尤利西斯不再感兴趣了。这是非常惊人的。

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

一位对我们的制度持严厉但并非不友好批评态度的人士表示,要想欣赏上院,唯一的办法就是去看看它。

A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams.

诗人应该在他的文章中留下痕迹,而不是证据。只有痕迹才会产生梦。

Also, many consumers consider a critic to be like God Almighty.

此外,许多消费者认为评论家就像全能的上帝。