As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.

  • -- Thomas Babington Macaulay 麦考莱

随着文明的进步,诗歌几乎必然会衰落。

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A race preserves its vigour so long as it harbours a real contrast between what has been and what may be, and so long as it is nerved by the vigour to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure, civilization is in full decay.

一个民族,只要它在过去和将来之间存在着一种真正的对比,只要它有勇气去冒险,超越过去的安全,它就能保持活力。没有冒险,文明就会完全衰落。

As a result of the digital age and the decline of first-class mail, there is no question that the Postal Service must change and develop a new business model.

由于数字时代和一流邮件的减少,毫无疑问,邮政服务必须改变和发展一种新的商业模式。

Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.

诗歌是一篇被施了魔法的散文,是由视觉思想构成的音乐,是一种思想的声音。

I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.

我恭敬地拒绝了加入你幻觉的邀请。

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

自然是天赋的主人;天才是自然的主宰。

The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.

这首诗是我们力量耗尽的时候。