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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Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he knows, what he has personally thought about and experienced, and not merely to express with slightly different variations the opinion which has been inculcated in him.

每个人都必须有无畏地独立思考的权利,并就他所知道的、他个人思考过的和经历过的事情表达自己的观点,而不仅仅是用略微不同的变化来表达灌输给他的观点。

I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.

当我在飞机上和空中交通管制人员交谈时,我有一种普通的匿名体验,他们不知道自己在和谁交谈。我有很多共同的经历。

If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.

如果他们不读书,如果他们不爱读书;如果他们不强迫自己阅读,我不认为他们是真正的作家。

It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.

当艺术家们发现艺术家们使用镜头、镜子或其他辅助工具时,他们并不会感到沮丧,但肯定会让艺术史学家们感到沮丧。

If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.

如果我们有什么好话要说,有什么柔情要表达,我们会感到羞愧。

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

诗人是这样的人,他架起通向星星的梯子——一边爬梯子一边拉提琴。

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。

The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.

持久的性格是一个平凡的人,有一些非凡的品质。

Music helps express those feelings that you can't seem to put into words.

音乐有助于表达那些你似乎无法用语言表达的情感。

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

敲出虚伪,敲入真实。