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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All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed.

那里所有的作者,当然大部分我从未见过。这是诗歌的一面,这是散文的一面,这是我身后的钓鱼和杂事。你喜欢你喜欢的书。

Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.

因为,如果一个人今天在写小说,那么专注于散文之美和专注于分号一样,都是白费力气。

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.

如果一个诗人是任何人,他是一个人,他的事情变得无关紧要的人-一个人痴迷于创造。

Poets have a license to lie.

诗人有撒谎的权利。