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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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。

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

科技是上帝的礼物。在生命的恩赐之后,这也许是神最大的恩赐。它是文明、艺术和科学之母。

If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.

如果人类要在目前的野蛮状态之外继续下去,就必须找到一条新的道路,一种以技术以外的其他方法为基础的新文明。

So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.

所以我认为诗歌,语言,它的形成,对我来说,过去是,现在仍然是一种努力,去从本质上毫无意义的情况中找到意义。

We are the daily bread of forlorn lovers, of all who want to believe in love; they cannot live without a taste.

我们是孤独恋人的日常食物,是所有想要相信爱的人的日常食物;他们的生活离不开品味。