I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.

  • -- Seamus Heaney 西默斯·希尼

我想不出诗歌改变世界的例子,但它们改变了人们对世界现状的理解。

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I think I probably would have enjoyed to keep my own private pain out of my work. But I was changed by my audience who said your private pain which you have unwittingly shown us in your early songs is also ours.

我想我可能很乐意把我个人的痛苦从我的工作中排除出去。但我被我的听众改变了,他们说,你在早期歌曲中无意中表现给我们的私人痛苦也是我们的。

Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.

小心智慧, 因为它知道的太多,所以什么也不知道 让你倒挂着, 把知识当作自己的心 从你嘴里掉出来。

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

美丽的人徒劳地转动着美丽的眼睛;美貌能打动人心,但美德能赢得灵魂。

Any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes.

在我看来,任何支持事物是可以改变的观点的电影都是一部伟大的电影。