To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.

  • -- Paul Valery 保尔·瓦雷里

写规则的诗破坏了无数美好的可能性,但同时也暗示了许多遥远的、完全出乎意料的想法。

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Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

善良的思想比善良的言语和行为更稀有。它们意味着要为他人着想。这本身是罕见的。但他们也暗示了大量的思考他人的想法,而不是批评。这种情况更加罕见。

I have a hard time watching the shows now. It is like opening up a yearbook when you were in junior high. I think everybody looks back at their photos and cringe, and I get to experience it with everybody else in the world looking at mine.

我现在很难看这些节目。这就像你初中时打开一本年鉴。我想每个人回头看他们的照片都会畏缩,而我和世界上其他所有人一起看我的照片时也会有这种感觉。

Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.

烧毁你们的城市,离开我们的农场,你们的城市就会像魔法一样重新出现;但是摧毁我们的农场,全国每个城市的街道上都会长出草来。

One thing I want to say: I don't like victim stories and I don't write them.

我想说的一件事是:我不喜欢受害者的故事,我也不写这些故事。

A million thoughts went through my mind. What little mind I have.

我脑子里闪过无数的念头。我的脑子真小。

Try to write poems at least one person in the room will hate.

试着写诗,房间里至少有一个人会讨厌。

Everything we see Teaches the time that we are living in.

我们所看到的一切都在告诉我们所处的时代。

Sometimes thinking too much can destroy your momentum.

有时候想太多会破坏你的动力。