Writing starts with living.

  • -- L.L. Barkat L.L.巴克

写作始于生活。

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But maybe it's up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you find, whatever you find, is always only part of the missing, and writing is the way the poet finds out what it is he found.

但也许它在山上,在树叶下,或者在某个地方的沟里。也许永远也找不到。但你所发现的,无论你发现了什么,总是缺失的一部分,而写作是诗人发现他所发现的东西的方式。

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practising it.

我们的文化中有一个可悲的事实,诗人写诗或谈论他的艺术比实践它能挣更多的钱。

Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean.

只有一半的文字表达了你的意思。另一半是阻止人们阅读他们所期望的你的意思。

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.

学者们喜欢对一部作品进行理论分析,但每一本书都在吞噬作者,是他或她的世界的总和。