People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable.

  • -- Rita Dove 丽塔·达夫

来自全国各地的人们写信给我,问我,有时甚至告诉我,他们认为桂冠诗人应该做什么。我发现这非常有价值。

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Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without, respectable, without dispute or noise, or bad words.

命令你的元帅要小心地出现在家庭,特别是在大厅,保持家庭,在门内,没有,尊敬,没有争议,噪音,或坏的话。

I felt uneasy, but sometimes, like I said before, I believed in Col. North and there was a very solid and very valid reason that he must have been doing this.

我感到不安,但有时,就像我之前说过的,我相信诺斯上校,他这么做一定有一个非常充分的理由。

Sometimes the best thing to say is nothing. Some people are not even worth your words.

有时候,什么也不说是最好的。有些人甚至不值得你说。

If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor.

如果上帝要我们弯腰,他会把钻石放在地板上。