Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

  • -- Walter Savage Landor 兰德

散文在某些场合可以承载大量的诗歌;另一方面,诗歌在适度的散文重压下沉沦和沉沦。

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Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you.

有时候你必须学很多东西。但你也应该有这样的日子,让你内在的东西膨胀起来,触及一切。如果你从不让这种事情发生,那么你只是在积累事实,它们开始在你的内心喋喋不休。

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

你的生活中出现了令人震惊和惊讶的人。你会有从未想过自己会经历的损失。你有过被拒绝的经历,你必须学会如何应对,如何在第二天起床继续前行。

The very best moment of writing 'Swamplandia!' was when I figured out what the ending should be. And even though I changed the prose of it, that realization was an ice cube melting in my chest.

写“沼泽地!”当我知道结局应该是什么时候。尽管我改变了文章的风格,但那种感觉就像一块冰块在我的胸膛里融化。

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.

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。

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

当我们意识到自己一无所有时,就有了诗歌。

I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.

我写了很多散文。我只是还没有发表。