A discrete series is a series of terms each of which is empirically derived, each one of which is empirically true. And this is the reason for the fragmentary character of those poems.

  • -- George Oppen 乔治·奥朋

离散级数是一系列项的集合,每一项都是经验推导出来的,每一项都是经验成立的。这就是这些诗歌残缺不全的原因。

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If I were assigned poems I suppose I'd write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the most part ignored in the market sense of the word so the language to me is most intimate, most important, most sublime and most satisfying when it gets done.

如果让我写诗,我想我会写更多,但这完全是自愿的,在很大程度上被市场忽略了,所以对我来说,语言是最亲密的,最重要的,最崇高的,最令人满意的。

The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.

一个角色在精装书之间所需要拥有的唯一美德就是活力,即使他的名字是真实的,如果他在我们的想象中出现,他就通过了考验。

Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.

从我很小的时候起,我就一直在写诗或戏剧……我担任主角的戏剧。

So I just play the character, I play the lines.

所以我只是扮演角色,扮演台词。