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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I find that acrylics dry very fast - which is supposed to be its charm; however, I find that because of that quality they don't blend as nicely as the oils. The oils, for one thing, are softer and more flexible than the acrylics. Also, the colors are brighter with oils.

我发现丙烯酸树脂干得很快——这应该是它的魅力所在;然而,我发现由于这种品质,它们不像油那样容易混合。首先,这些油比丙烯酸树脂更柔软、更有弹性。而且,涂上油后颜色会更鲜艳。

They're - FBI agents are some of the finest people you'll find anyplace in the country or the world. And I'm lucky to have the opportunity to work with them.

他们是——联邦调查局特工是这个国家或这个世界上最优秀的人。我很幸运有机会和他们一起工作。

Picture being forced to talk endlessly about your feelings and listen and care when what you needed was just to get something done.

想象一下你被迫无休止地谈论自己的感受,倾听和关心你需要做的事情。

I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.

我不想告诉那棵树或杂草它是什么。我想让它告诉我一些事情,并通过我来表达它的本质意义。

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.

如果一个诗人是任何人,他是一个人,他的事情变得无关紧要的人-一个人痴迷于创造。

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.

普通人以一种我们不太理解的方式投下了阴影。天才会发光。

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.

在日常交谈中,有两件事是普通人不喜欢的——信息和风趣。

Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.

就像一位伟大的诗人,大自然知道如何用最有限的手段产生最大的效果。

With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.

有了吉他,我可以用声音来表达我的感受。

I'm not afraid to write my feelings in songs.

我不害怕把我的感受写进歌里。