Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time.

  • -- Robert Graves 罗伯特·格雷夫斯

永远不要用“听众”这个词。“除非诗人是为了钱而写作,否则公众的想法在我看来就是错误的。诗人没有“听众”。他们一直在和一个人说话。

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Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I've been doing - keep taking care of business.

别拿我和贝比鲁斯比。上帝给了我机会和能力来这里在正确的时间,在正确的时刻,就像他给贝比鲁斯当他在玩。我只是希望我能继续做我一直在做的事情——继续打理生意。

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be too cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

如果我们听从自己的智慧,我们就不会有爱情。我们永远不会有友谊。我们永远不会去做生意,因为我们太愤世嫉俗了。嗯,那是胡说八道。你必须一直从悬崖上跳下去,并在下降的过程中建立你的翅膀。

'Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He's content to make out with what he's got. He knows he'll go no further.

“疲倦的威利”对我来说很真实。他是一个已经放弃的人。船开走了,离开了他。形势对他不利。他对自己所拥有的一切感到满足。他知道他不会再往前走了。

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

人若不作愚妄人,就永远找不到智慧。唉,作家在公众面前必须是傻瓜,而其他人可以掩盖自己的踪迹。

But I don't mind, I'm a bit of a touring animal. When I'm on tour that is the greatest thrill for me, playing to a live audience.

但我不介意,我有点像旅游动物。当我在巡演时,对我来说最大的刺激就是现场演奏。

My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also.

我的儿子曾经有过写作的想法,并试着写一点,所以这也给了我写作的灵感。

And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.

因此,我一直着迷于这样一个想法,即复杂性可以来自于这样的简单。

I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.

我收听国家公共广播电台,至少对我来说,这是对事物最全面的看法。

I know my audience, and they're not people that the studios know anything about.

我了解我的观众,他们不是电影公司所了解的人。

The one thing that does not abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

唯一不遵守多数决定原则的是一个人的良心。

Good novel are written by people who are not frightened.

好的小说是由不害怕的人写的。

Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.

良心不过是死人对我们说话。

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

从写作和阅读中学到的东西一样多。

Poets have a license to lie.

诗人有撒谎的权利。