There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man.

  • -- William H. Hunt 威廉H.亨特

没有什么比诗人的比喻破坏了他的文字,使其不能用于人类的日常用途更能说明为什么一幅画的特征会被这样富有想象力的暗示所歪曲了。

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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.

命运是一种不值得追求和避免的东西。这是一种不违背理性的神秘,因为它暗示着世界和人类历史的进程是有意义的。

Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.

通过写作,通过这个过程,他们意识到自己变得比生活中任何其他部分都更聪明,更诚实,更有想象力。

I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind.

我和唱片公司谈了我的想法。他们说他们想要一些茂盛的东西。我想最好的办法就是让他们听到我的想法。

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.

男性主导女性的需求可能基于他们自己的边缘化或空虚感;我们不知道它的根源,人们也没有努力去发现它。

Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.

电影里有趣的事情发生在你身上都是出于愚蠢的原因。