By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.

  • -- Lascelles Abercrombie 阿伯克龙比激光束

我所说的史诗的一般过程,指的是这种艺术形式不断地对其产生的社会的深刻需求作出反应的方式。

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Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.

这是我的规则:你总是想支付现金为自己的书,因为如果他们看信用卡上的名字,然后看看这本书的名字夹克,还有这的深刻同情你,你不得不求助于这个。它真的在枯萎。

But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.

但是人类社会的发展并不是一帆风顺的;因此,史诗的过程将是一个循环的过程,而这个系列将是一个循环的系列——尽管不是完全重复。

The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always.

全世界都知道有大量的史诗材料散布在各个国家;有时,它的艺术价值和考古价值一样非同寻常,但并非总是如此。

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

一生中只有一个朋友就够了;两个有很多;三个是不可能的。友谊需要生活的某种并行性,思想的共同体,目标的竞争。

What's Love, if not this folly of a wider space, taking us to an innermost Love.

爱是什么,如果不是这个愚蠢的更广阔的空间,把我们带到一个最深处的爱。

There are enough churches already, but the world still needs salvation.

教会已经够多了,但世界仍然需要救赎。

The most profound things are inexpressible.

最深刻的东西是无法表达的。

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.

我想我从来没有读过诗,从来没有。