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创造
Creation
Talent comes from originality which is a special manner of thinking, of seeing, of understanding and of judging.
天才源于独创性,独创性是一种特殊的思维方式、观察方式、理解方式和判断方式。
You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
你是一个奇妙的创造物。你知道的比你认为你知道的多,正如你知道的比你想知道的少。
I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.
在我开始写作之前,我就看到了诗歌的形状,而写作只是达到这种形状的过程。
The thing is: It takes a lot of energy to be creative. You don’t have that energy if you waste it on other stuff.
问题是:创造需要很多精力。如果你把精力浪费在其他事情上,你就没有精力了。
If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.
如果一个诗人是任何人,他是一个人,他的事情变得无关紧要的人-一个人痴迷于创造。
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
让简单变得复杂是司空见惯的;让复杂变得简单,非常简单,这就是创造力。
There's no such thing as complete when it comes to stories. Stories are infinite. They are as infinite as worlds.
说到故事,没有什么是完整的。故事是无限的。它们像世界一样无限。
If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little---somebody who is obsessed by Making.
如果一个诗人是什么人,他就是那种对事物的意义不大的人——那种痴迷于创造的人。
It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.
如果你能让你的思维延伸到比下一个俏皮话更远的地方,那将是一个了不起的创新。
You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.
你可以分辨出在车库创作的歌曲和在录音室创作的歌曲。
I never liked to copy things that are out there. I always like to come up with something new, something different.
我从来不喜欢抄袭别人的东西。我总是喜欢想出一些新的,一些不同的东西。
Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it.
创造是一种通过实践获得力量的诀窍,就像几乎所有技能一样,如果你不实践,它就会消失。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
直觉是创造力试图告诉你一些事情。
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
书籍选择作者;创造的行为并不完全是理性的和有意识的。
Without imagination, there would be no creativity. Without creativity, there would be nothing.
没有想象力,就没有创造力。没有创造力,就没有一切。
A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.
作家应该把自己的思想埋得很深,并通过小说中的人物来传达。
Because imagination created the world, it governs it.
因为想象力创造了世界,所以它统治着世界。
In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
在文字的世界里,想象力是自然的力量之一。