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But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.

  • -- John Updike 约翰·厄普代克

但是，从他的信中摘录的几句话和一两行奇怪的诗句中，这位诗人却在自己的传记中感到窒息。

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I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.

我相信短篇小说的形式和诗歌一样不同，在我看来最好的小说在精神上更接近诗歌而不是小说。

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Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.

传记是一个非常明确的地域，它以历史为北，以小说为南，以讣告为东，以沉闷为西。

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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

一个好的轶事值得一卷传记。

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Every single soul is a poem.

每一个灵魂都是一首诗。

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