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.

  • -- Bill Cosby 比尔·科斯比

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。

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A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

诗人不应该扒窃自然的衣袋。让他借钱吧,借了就借,借了就借,借了就借,借了就还。准确地审视自然,但要从回忆中写作,更要相信想象力,而不是记忆。

If you go down as a comedian's comedian, that's basically meaning other comedians are hopefully feeling that you're doing okay.

如果你成为一个喜剧演员的喜剧演员,这基本上意味着其他喜剧演员希望你做得很好。

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

如果某样东西因为你而活在别人身上,那么你就接近了不朽。

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

为了拯救你的世界,你让这个人去死;这个人,他现在能看见你吗,会问为什么吗?

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

对于诗人来说,最重要的是尽可能少写。

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

我们都知道,我们都会死;我要是早点记起来就好了。

I would probably be a teacher if I weren't a comedian.

如果我不是喜剧演员,我可能会成为一名教师。

The only greatness for man is immortality.

人类唯一的伟大是不朽。