I don't know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets - the established poets. There was a lot of pretty boring stuff to sort of put up with and to add to, to make something vital from.

  • -- Robert Adamson 罗伯特·亚当森

我不知道年轻的诗人是否读了很多,你知道,著名的诗人。有很多很无聊的东西要忍受,要添加,要做一些重要的东西。

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I don't try to be completely calculating in everything I say and do, but there's no way I'm going to talk. There's no reason to. And that's why I'm such a boring interview, because I don't go for the shock value, or smartass answers.

我不会试图在我说的和做的每件事上都完全算计,但是我没有办法说话。没有理由。这就是为什么我是一个如此无聊的面试,因为我不追求令人震惊的价值,或聪明的答案。

Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.

诗人说过,有孩子的原因是为了让自己长生不老。永生?现在我有五个孩子了,我唯一的希望就是在我死之前他们都离开家。

If I upset some notions and went against established rules, that wasn't part of what I wanted to do. It wasn't my goal.

如果我打破了一些观念,违反了既定的规则,那不是我想做的。这不是我的目标。

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

在这个时代,真理是如此模糊,谎言是如此根深蒂固,以至于,除非我们热爱真理,否则我们无法知道它。

Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

英镑的疯狂。所有的诗人都是。他们必须如此。你不会把庞德这样的诗人扔进疯人院。

The thirst to know and understand, a large and liberal discontent.

渴望了解和理解,是一种巨大而自由的不满。

The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.

成功的秘诀是知道一些别人不知道的事情。

I'm so boring.

我很无聊。