A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so.

  • -- Eyvind Johnson 雍松

诗人或散文叙述者通常会在回顾过去的岁月中所取得的成就时,发现其中一些成就是可以接受的,而另一些则不那么容易接受。

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None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

只有诗人才能写悲剧。因为悲剧只不过是痛苦被诗歌的炼金术转化为狂喜。

My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica.

我从棒球退役后的第一份工作是为伊士曼爱乐口琴做解说员。

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

诗人是这样的人,他架起通向星星的梯子——一边爬梯子一边拉提琴。