So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sacrificed as the book's form hardened.

  • -- Annie Dillard 迪拉德

所以一个作家写了很多书。在每一本书中,他都有意提出几个紧迫而生动的观点,随着书的形式变得更加坚实,他牺牲了其中的许多观点。

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In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

在一个好的书屋里,你会以某种神秘的方式感到,你在通过皮肤吸收所有书中所包含的智慧,甚至不用打开它们。

There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere.

世界上有太多的书不能在一个人的一生中读完;你必须在某个地方划清界限。

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

我发现,书籍具有让时间静止、后退或飞向未来的力量。

It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.

写一首关于诗的诗并不容易。