The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.

  • -- Elias Canetti 伊莱亚斯卡内蒂

写作的过程是无限的。即使它每天晚上都被打断,它也是一个单一的符号。

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Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time.

永远不要用“听众”这个词。“除非诗人是为了钱而写作,否则公众的想法在我看来就是错误的。诗人没有“听众”。他们一直在和一个人说话。

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

从阿米巴变形虫到人类的过程在哲学家们看来是一个明显的进步,尽管阿米巴变形虫是否会同意这一观点还不清楚。

Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the only normal writer left on earth -- and it is this that adds to his isolation and so too his so sense of guilt.

也许他的悲剧在于,他是世界上唯一一个正常的作家,而正是这一点增加了他的孤立感,也增加了他的罪恶感。

Due process and judicial process are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security.

正当程序和司法程序不是一回事,特别是在涉及国家安全的时候。