After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is the essence which takes its place as life’s redemption.

  • -- Wallace Stevens 华莱士·史蒂文斯

当一个人放弃了对上帝的信仰之后,诗歌就成为了一种本质,它取代了生命的救赎。

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A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.

一个人生来就有眼睛和耳朵的欲望,喜欢美丽的风景和声音。如果他给他们让路,他们将导致他的不道德和缺乏约束,任何仪式的原则和礼仪将被抛弃。

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

对和平与进步的追求不可能在几年内以胜利或失败告终。对和平与进步的追求,连同它的考验和错误、成功和挫折,绝不能放松和放弃。

This head has risen above its hair in a moment of abandon known only to men who have drawn their feet out of their boots to walk awhile in the corridors of the mind.

他的头在他的头发上面昂起,那一刻的放纵,只有那些把脚从靴子里抽出来,在心灵的走廊里走一会儿的人才知道。

If we truly detach from our childhood and abandon our inherent romanticism, then we shred any bit of humanity left in us.

如果我们真的脱离了童年,抛弃了与生俱来的浪漫主义,那么我们就撕碎了自己身上的人性。