I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.

  • -- Edith Sitwell 伊迪丝·西特韦尔

我常常希望自己有时间培养谦逊……但是我太忙于考虑自己了。

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Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do.

有些东西是否过时并不能解决它是否正确的问题。我能看到人们简单地想,‘嗯,有一种文化主流整齐地朝着一个方向流动。你只要和它对齐。这真的不行。

When I sing for myself, I probably sing for anyone who has any kind of hurt, any kind of bad feelings, good feelings, ups and downs, highs and lows, that kind of thing.

当我为自己唱歌的时候,我可能会为任何受过伤害的人唱歌,任何不好的感觉,好的感觉,起起落落,高潮和低谷,诸如此类。

The essays are different because ultimately it's things I'm interested in, and I'm really just writing about myself and using those subjects as a prism.

这些文章是不同的,因为最终它是我感兴趣的东西,我只是在写我自己,并把这些主题作为一个棱镜。

I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.

我认为诗歌的工作,它的政治工作,是更新正义的观念,这一观念一直在我们心中消亡。

Behold the power of the truth. When people see its shadow on the wall, they don't want to take the time to look away.

看真理的大能。当人们看到它的影子在墙上,他们不想花时间看别处。

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

思想就是生活,因为那些不这样想的人没有生活在任何高或真正的意义上。思想造就人。