The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.

  • -- W. Somerset Maugham 威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆

散文作家只有在诗人去世时才能退居二线。

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It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.

诗性语言对散文语言的影响可以看作是一种决定性的鞭策。

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

诗歌的魅力已经足够了,但散文也必须令人信服。

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

我爱上了社会工作,这就是我作为一个诗人的下场。

Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.

良心不过是死人对我们说话。