The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

  • -- T. S. Eliot T.S.艾略特

诗人的工作不是寻找新的情感,而是运用普通的情感,把它们编成诗歌,表达那些根本不属于实际情感的情感。

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For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.

为了论证和说明,我假定某些日常饮食习惯,无论在青年时期多么有益,在老年时期却有害无益,就像豆子对马一样,马的日常饮食就是干草和玉米。

Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.

不要自己估量你的损失;如果你这样做了,就会显得不可容忍;但是,如果你把所有人的事情都考虑进去,你就会发现从中会得到一些安慰。

When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings of its elements.

当我们不只是把某些行为与动物的某些情境联系起来,而是把情境想清楚时,我们就会对其中的元素有一套特定的感觉。

I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically different from the last.

我想这其中也包含了刻意改变的因素。至少在我看来,我的每一本书都与上一本书截然不同。

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。

Feelings are not always a guide to truth, and guilt is an indulgence you cannot afford. It clouds the mind.

感情并不总是通往真理的向导,而内疚是你无法承受的放纵。它使人头脑发昏。

I think I gravitate towards people who express themselves in a simple and funny way.

我认为我倾向于用简单有趣的方式表达自己的人。

I'll date one day if I find someone that I want to let into my life enough.

如果有一天我能找到一个我足够想要进入我生活的人,我就会去约会。

We should all have the opportunity to express what we want to express.

我们都应该有机会表达我们想表达的。

Never love anyone who treats you like ordinary.

永远不要爱一个把你当普通人看待的人。