Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

  • -- Roland Joffe 约菲

诗歌应该让读者感到惊奇,而不是感到奇怪,它应该让读者觉得它是他自己最高思想的一种表达,而且几乎是一种回忆。

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Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I've written a whole song in an hour.

我脑子里会突然冒出一些零星的想法,我得去写点东西,然后你知道的,我在一个小时内就写完了整首歌。

That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.

我们的思想、激情和由想象形成的思想,都不存在于头脑之外,这是每个人都允许的。

Never expect things to happen it's better to feel surprised than to feel disappointed.

永远不要期望事情会发生感到惊讶总比感到失望好。

A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.

预测和惊喜的完美结合似乎是最好的艺术的核心。