For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.

  • -- Robert Penn Warren 沃伦

因为什么是诗歌,但却是一种危险的自我理解的尝试:它是自传中最深刻的部分。

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Seek first to understand, then to be understood.Most people do not listen with the intent to understand: they listen with the intent to reply. They’re filtering everything through their own paradigms, reading their autobiography into other people’s lives.

先寻求理解,再寻求被理解。大多数人倾听的目的不是为了理解,而是为了回应。他们通过自己的范例来过滤一切,把自己的自传读给别人听。

I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read and reread a poem so many times that it simply drills itself into your head.

我认为诗歌是唯一一个你喜欢的作家能真正影响你的领域,因为你读了又读了那么多遍一首诗,以至于它会在你的脑海中根深蒂固。

When you understand who God is, you can see beyond a shadow of a doubt why your weakness is nothing to be feared, because it just leaves more room for him and his strength.

当你明白了神是谁的时候,你就会明白为什么你的软弱没有什么可怕的,因为这只会给神和他的能力留下更多的空间。

A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never a thought to begin with.

可以这么说,诗歌从来就不是一项精心安排的工作。它始于哽咽,一种错误的感觉,一种乡愁,一种相思。这从来就不是一个想法。

I end up writing about all kinds of things. I never make an attempt to write about anything in particular. I don't have a little list of topics to write about.

我写的东西五花八门。我从不试图写任何特别的东西。我没有一个小的主题列表可以写。

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?

如果你知道自己不会失败,你会尝试做什么?