It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.

  • -- Gerard Manley Hopkins 杰拉德·曼利·霍普金斯

诗歌没有捷径可走,这是一件令人高兴的事。现在世人应该知道,除非飞到帕纳索斯,否则是到不了帕纳索斯的。

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Now, by two-headed Janus, Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time: Some that will evermore peep through their eyes And laugh like parrots at a bagpiper.

现在,借着双头的杰纳斯,大自然在她的时代塑造了一些奇怪的家伙:有些人将永远透过他们的眼睛窥视,像鹦鹉对风笛手那样大笑。

The great thing about McDonald's is that they have a lot of different things on the menu. I love their salads.

麦当劳最大的优点是他们的菜单上有很多不同的东西。我喜欢他们的沙拉。

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

一个人所发明的一切都是真的,这一点你可以完全肯定。诗歌和几何学一样精确。

Family is not an important thing, it's everything.

家庭不是一件重要的事情,它是一切。

I once ate McDonald's three times in one day.

我曾经一天吃三次麦当劳。

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

我想我从来没有读过诗,从来没有。