When you're a student of poetry, you're lucky if you don't realize how untalented you are until you get a little better. Otherwise, you would just stop.

  • -- Tony Hoagland 侯格兰

当你是一个学诗的学生时,如果你没有意识到自己有多么没有天赋,直到你变得更好一点,你就是幸运的。否则,你就会停下来。

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Writing songs is a profession; so it's not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some reason give them to a total stranger to listen to. I find it offensive to hear other people do that.

写歌是一种职业;所以这并不是试图从我与他人的互动中获取一些东西,出于某种原因,把它们给一个完全陌生的人听。我觉得别人那样做很无礼。

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

任何傻瓜都能写小说,但只有真正的天才才能把它卖出去。