But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

  • -- Lord Byron 拜伦勋爵

但文字是东西,一滴墨水, 像露水一样,落在思想上,就会产生思想 让成千上万人,也许是数百万人思考的东西。

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But maybe it's up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you find, whatever you find, is always only part of the missing, and writing is the way the poet finds out what it is he found.

但也许它在山上,在树叶下,或者在某个地方的沟里。也许永远也找不到。但你所发现的,无论你发现了什么,总是缺失的一部分,而写作是诗人发现他所发现的东西的方式。

A good writer is basically a story-teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

一个好的作家基本上是一个讲故事的人,而不是一个学者或人类的救赎者。