I would especially like to recourt the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.

  • -- John Updike 约翰·厄普代克

我特别想引用诗神的话,她四年前和邮递员私奔了,只是偶尔给我寄来一张潦草的明信片。

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A smart woman knows what to say, how to say it and when to shut up. God, I pray you help me learn to do all three at the same time...But mostly please teach me to shut up when i need to.

聪明的女人知道说什么,怎么说,什么时候闭嘴。上帝,我祈求你帮助我学会同时做这三件事……但最重要的是,请教我在需要的时候闭嘴。

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.

由于预计大多数诗歌都比带着沉重的行李通过奥黑尔机场还要糟糕,公众对诗歌的了解少之又少。

I never wear pants in my life. I never thought I'd say this, but I miss wearing pants. For the first time in my life, I miss my pants.

我这辈子从来不穿裤子。我从没想过我会这么说,但我很怀念穿裤子的日子。我有生以来第一次想念我的裤子。

Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.

后来我发现我喜欢写诗胜过写小说。