When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

  • -- Michel de Montaigne 蒙塔尼米歇尔

当我受到悲观思想的攻击时,没有什么比读书更能帮助我了。它们迅速地吸收了我,驱散了我脑海中的浮云。

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Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.

长时间、不分青红皂白地读书是一项特别吃力不讨好、令人恼火和筋疲力尽的工作。它不仅包括赞美垃圾,还包括不断地对那些没有任何自然感觉的书做出反应。

When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future.

当读者进入一本诗集,他或她进入一个世界,在那里梦想把过去变成适用于现在的知识,在那里幻想把现在塑造成未来的非凡可能性。