Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with the anthologies of all the world besides.

  • -- William Ernest Henley 威廉姆·恩内斯特·亨里

现在,要读诗,就必须有自己的理想选集,而且不能满足于世界上所有的选集。

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I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?

我会告诉你我最想念什么。我最喜欢做的就是选集。有了一本选集,你就可以讲述任何故事,进入电视的每一个部门。我们再也没有选集了,是吗?

The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.

从长远来看,第一批作家是第一位的,其余的都是在选集里。

After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.

在最后一个“不”之后,会有一个“是”,在这个“是”之上,世界的未来就悬在那里。

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

诗歌是拨动心弦的音乐。