Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.

  • -- Russell Baker 拉塞尔·贝克

由于预计大多数诗歌都比带着沉重的行李通过奥黑尔机场还要糟糕,公众对诗歌的了解少之又少。

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these.

诗歌不是情感的放纵,而是情感的逃避;它不是个性的表现,而是对个性的一种逃避。但是,当然,只有那些有个性和情感的人才知道想要逃离这些意味着什么。

I'm not a big fan of flying. I definitely try to take the bus whenever I can. I've gotten a little bit better about it, but it was a pretty crippling thing for many years. I feel safer in a private plane.

我不太喜欢飞行。只要有时间,我一定要坐公共汽车。我已经有了一点进步,但这是一件非常严重的事情,多年来一直如此。我觉得坐私人飞机更安全。

And this week, I am proposing legislation to strengthen our Open Records laws to make public access to our public records surer, faster, and more comprehensive.

本周,我提议立法加强我们的公开档案法,让公众更安全、更快、更全面地访问我们的公开档案。

We have tried you good people of the public and we have found you wanting.

我们试过你们这些公众中的好人,我们发现你们的不足。

You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.

你知道,人们一直在用诗歌说话。他们只是没有意识到。

Every little thing is gonna be alright.

一切都会好起来的。