A good poet is someone who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times; a dozen or two dozen times and he is great.

  • -- Randall Jarrell 兰德尔·贾雷尔

一个好的诗人是这样的人,他一生中在暴风雨中脱颖而出,却被雷击了五六次;一打或二十打,他就很棒了。

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I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.

我是一个唯我论者,一个自恋者,而且过于自大。我现在有了更多的同情心,但是花了很长时间。

From time to time historians need to be shocked.

历史学家需要不时地感到震惊。