What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever.

  • -- Ian Hamilton Finlay 伊恩·汉密尔顿·芬利

你用的不是这里也不是那里,你用的是文字,你用的是石头和树木,你用的是事件;警长什么的。

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Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform.

那些从口袋里支取薪金,并由他们任命军官的人,总是有权讨论他们的军官的优点,以及他们履行职责的方式。

Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.

因此,一个人找不到地方走过地球的宽度不是因为地球不平静,而是因为危险的旅行者的每一步通常在于文字。

No one goes unscathed, we all go through things. We just can't let people's nasty words become our beliefs about ourselves, you know?

没有人能毫发无损,我们都会经历一些事情。我们不能让别人的脏话成为我们对自己的信念,你知道吗?

I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.

我是我自己的秘书;我口述,我创作,我自己复制。

The way to compose for me is to have lots of time.

对我来说作曲的方法就是要有很多的时间。