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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I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.

我喜欢有人建议我做一件事,而不喜欢有人把全部告诉我。当每一个细节都被给出时,头脑就会得到满足,想象力就会失去使用自己翅膀的欲望。

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。

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

要像太阳或大海一样仁慈,但是如果你作为一个理性存在的权利被牢牢地钉住,那就死在你领土的第一寸土地上。

I think of feminism as a socially just and imaginative world.

我认为女权主义是一个社会公正和充满想象力的世界。

Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.

阅读是一种积极的、富有想象力的行为;需要工作。

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

理智和判断是领导者的品质。