I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.

  • -- Carol Ann Duffy 卡罗尔·安·达菲

在我开始写作之前,我就看到了诗歌的形状,而写作只是达到这种形状的过程。

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It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

只要有人说了什么,油漆怎么涂就没有多大区别。技巧只是一种表达方式。

Writers are often given the gift of being spectacularly unhappy, so that they can record the full depth of feeling.

作家常常被赋予一种引人注目的不快乐的天赋,这样他们就能记录下情感的全部深度。

I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.

我阅读一个人游泳的方式,以挽救他或她的生命。我也是这么写的。