One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.

  • -- Ella Maillart 梅拉特

旅行是为了再次学习如何像孩子一样对生活感到惊奇。诗人和艺术家是有福的,因为他们知道如何保持自己的好奇心。

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The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind him too; only, for the epic poet, tradition is rather narrower, rather more strictly compelling.

史诗诗人的背后有着物质的传统和文体的传统;这也是其他所有诗人都有的东西;只是,对于史诗诗人来说,传统要狭隘得多,要严格得多。

Turkeys, quails, and small birds, are here to be seen; but birds are not numerous in desart forests; they draw near to the habitations of men, as I have constantly observed in all my travels.

这里可以看到火鸡、鹌鹑和小鸟;但在荒无人烟的森林里,鸟类并不多见;它们靠近人类的居所,正如我在所有的旅行中不断观察到的那样。

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

对于任何男人或女人来说,有一个朋友是一件幸运的事,一个我们完全可以信任的人的灵魂,一个了解我们最好和最坏的方面,一个尽管我们有所有的缺点仍然爱我们的人。

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

真正的艺术家不会用不道德代替道德。相反,他总是用更高尚的道德来代替更粗俗的道德。

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

诗人向所有的人诉说着他们被压抑和遗忘的另一种生活。

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

一个人走遍世界寻找他所需要的东西,然后回家去找。

I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career.

我是一个爱管闲事的公民,我有幸拥有一份活跃的事业。

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

艺术家的天职是把光送入人类的心灵。