Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce.

  • -- Robert Fitzgerald 罗伯特·菲茨杰拉德

当然,另一种更严肃的方式是,人们在诗歌和语言中发现了一些适合自己的特质,并希望复制。

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Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.

语言是有生命的东西。我们能感觉到它的变化。它的一部分会变老:它们会脱落并被遗忘。新碎片发芽,蔓延到叶子,成为大树枝,增殖。

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

有一个真理是站得住脚的。世界历史上发生的一切都是建立在精神上的。如果精神强大,它就创造了世界历史。如果它软弱,它就会遭受世界历史。

I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.

我认为音乐是一种语言。如果一个音乐形式吃掉了自己的尾巴,它就会死亡。所以它需要是一个杂种,它需要被杂交。

We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing.

我们必须非常严肃地看待我们所做的是对还是错,因为我们一直在输。

Never act until you have clearly answered the question: What happens if I do nothing?

如果我什么都不做,会发生什么?

About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.

关于我的职业,我是认真的,认真的,有时不耐烦。