A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.

  • -- Paul Valery 保尔·瓦雷里

如果艺术中固有的困难能给人以灵感,那么人就是诗人;如果他们剥夺了他的思想,他就不是诗人。

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And so the idea was, well maybe you can take an Atari video game machine, where people plug in a game cartridge, and plug in a modem, and tie that into a telephone, and essentially turn that game in the machine into an interactive terminal.

所以我们的想法是,也许你可以把雅达利的视频游戏机,人们把游戏盒插进去,把调制解调器插进去,把调制解调器和电话连接起来,把游戏机里的游戏变成一个互动终端。

They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it.

他们需要学习诗歌。他们不需要学习诗歌。他们不需要被告知如何解读诗歌。他们不需要被告知如何理解诗歌。他们需要学习。

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

友谊只能存在于有着相似兴趣和观点的人之间。男人和女人由社会习俗而生,有着不同的兴趣和不同的观点。

I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.

我认为诗歌已经失去了很多力量,因为没有人知道。没有人需要背诵诗歌。

I have a tendency to hire people who tend to be unattractive to the studios. Maybe this is a bad idea.

我倾向于雇佣那些对制片厂没有吸引力的人。也许这是个坏主意。

I am a man of contradictions, I suppose.

我想我是一个矛盾的人。