Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

  • -- Miguel de Cervantes 塞万提斯

谦虚是诗人所不常有的美德,因为他们几乎都认为自己是世界上最伟大的人。

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The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

能够吸收最多的事实,并坚持这样做,一代又一代,通过所有的意见和细节的变化,是一个理论,必须统治所有的观察。

If you can't laugh at yourself, then how can you laugh at anybody else? I think people see the human side of you when you do that.

如果你不能自嘲,那你怎么能嘲笑别人呢?我认为当你这样做的时候,人们会看到你人性的一面。

Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.

诗人是把文字从对定义的坚定占有中解放出来的战士。

There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.

总是有一些疯子。没有他们的世界将是一个沉闷的世界。

I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing.

我有严重的学习障碍,我认为这驱使我去做我正在做的事情。

Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.

持久的大理石追求的诗人必须来自拉丁语或希腊语。

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

欺骗别人。这就是所谓的浪漫。

My greatest inspiration is memory.

我最大的灵感是记忆。