I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!

  • -- Rita Dove 丽塔·达夫

我被任命为桂冠诗人。这完全出乎我的意料,因为大多数的桂冠诗人都比我大得多。

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That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices.

神人为他的子民而死,他的死就是他们的生命,这一观念在某种程度上是由早期的神秘祭祀所预示的。

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.

我看不出一个人怎么能一边从事物理学的前沿工作,一边写诗。他们是对立的。

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

无论诗人、演说家或圣人怎么说,老年依然是老年。

The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.

底线是,我倾向于回到越来越老的音乐。