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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In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature.

在我们这个时代,我们已经看到……那些在荒野中长大的单纯的孩子们,已经开始自己画画了,他们被自己的自然天赋所驱使,仅仅以这些美丽的自然绘画和雕塑为榜样。

Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.

即使你每次都走完全相同的路线——就像一首十四行诗一样——沿途发生的事情也不可能日复一日地一成不变,因为诗人的健康、视力、预期、情绪、恐惧和思想也不可能一成不变。

Anyone who has a dog knows that they have some very deep thoughts, that they have moods and emotions, they get their feelings hurt. It's not a far reach to give them opinions and values and long-term desires.

任何养狗的人都知道他们有一些非常深刻的想法,他们有情绪和情绪,他们的感觉受到伤害。给他们提供意见、价值观和长期愿望并不是遥不可及的。

They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it's time for special counsel.

他们把你拖到那里,你知道,一周又一周,在这样的星际室里。最后他们说,我们什么也没找到,但现在是特别检察官的时候了。

I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so painful they can just barely bring themselves to write about it. A writer has to draw blood.

我告诉学生们,当一个场景是如此痛苦,他们几乎无法让自己把它写下来的时候,他们就会知道他们正在到达某个地方。作家必须抽血。

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

凡活着的,无论是人,是鹿,是松树,都比死了好。

Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.

能写格言的人不应该把时间浪费在随笔上。

He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.

被电视创造的人可以被电视毁灭。