There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

  • -- Walt Whitman 沃尔特惠特曼

一个文盲身上有一种说不出的新鲜感和无意识感,它使最高尚的表达天才的力量受到贬低和嘲笑。

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It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.

我很清楚,你不能再拖了。创意失去了一定的新鲜度,创意有保质期,有时它们必须被其他创意所取代。

Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.

每当一个学生经过一幢属于他的学院的非常紧急、富有表现力的建筑时,它都能帮助他确信,他确实有那样的头脑,有那样的灵魂。

I'm a very lucky man. It's a beautiful thing for a writer, to see people allowing your words to enter their own unconscious and their souls.

我是一个非常幸运的人。对于一个作家来说,看到人们允许你的文字进入他们自己的潜意识和灵魂,这是一件美妙的事情。

Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.

不会读和写音乐与不会说和写是不一样的。

There's only one degree of freshness the first, which makes it also the last.

只有一种程度的新鲜感是第一种,这也是最后一种。

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

我找不到的中心对我的潜意识来说是已知的。

An illiterate king is a crowned ass.

不识字的国王是头戴王冠的驴子。