And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.

  • -- Norman MacCaig 麦凯格

在某种程度上,这对我来说是一种帮助,因为我对一位特定的诗人怀有极大的激情——有时这种激情会持续很多年,有时只会持续一段时间。每个人都会这样。

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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

理性是,也只应该是激情的奴隶,除了服务和服从激情之外,永远不能伪装成任何别的职务。

If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.

如果现在真的是我们所拥有的一切,那么现在就是永远。

I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.

我认为愤世嫉俗是永恒的。多愁善感的年龄,约会很快。

Absence cools moderate passions but inflames violent ones.

离别能冷却温和的感情,却能煽起暴烈的感情。