And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping.

  • -- Norman MacCaig 麦凯格

有些诗人更擅长即兴朗读,因为他们不擅长演讲。我特别想到了一位我不愿指名画姓的诗人,他读起来枯燥无味,你的眼睛开始耷拉下来。

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Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.

诗人说过,有孩子的原因是为了让自己长生不老。永生?现在我有五个孩子了,我唯一的希望就是在我死之前他们都离开家。

Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric; of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry.

在与他人的冲突中,我们夸夸其谈;在我们与自己的冲突中,我们创造了诗歌。

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

真正的书不是我们读过的书,而是能读懂我们的书。

My wife is my in-home editor and reads everything I write.

我妻子是我的家庭编辑,读我写的所有东西。