Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.

  • -- Wallace Stevens 华莱士·史蒂文斯

大多数人读诗是为了寻找共鸣,因为共鸣对他们来说很熟悉。他们涉水而过,就像一个男孩涉水而过,用脚趾摸索着水底:回声就是水底。

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The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.

平凡人对盲、聋很熟悉,从他的日常经验中知道,事物的外观是受他的感官影响的;但是他从来没有想过把整个世界看作是他感官的创造。

And like I said, I appreciate my older brothers because they would not allow me to win. They made me learn to play with them, which I think is the most important thing that I learned.

就像我说的,我很感激我的哥哥们,因为他们不让我赢。他们让我学会和他们一起玩,我认为这是我学到的最重要的事情。

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.

同理心就是在自己身上找到另一个人的影子。