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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Men who are engaged in public life must necessarily aim at reducing opposition to a minimum, and one of the most obvious means to that end is by misrepresenting, discrediting or ruining their opponents.

从事公共生活的人必须把反对降到最低限度,而达到这一目的最明显的手段之一就是歪曲、诋毁或毁灭他们的对手。

If you think I'm happy when you're not around, it's because I'm thinking of you.

如果你认为你不在时我很快乐,那是因为我在想你。

To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life.

要过公众生活,你仍然有权过私人生活。

My mom won't let anyone treat me like a little princess.

我妈妈不会让任何人像对待小公主一样对待我。

So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.

对父母的要求太多,给予的却太少。

Without poetry, stories would be told in sepia.

没有诗歌,故事就只能在深褐色中讲述。