I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

  • -- Socrates 苏格拉底

我断定,不是智慧使诗人能够写诗,而是一种本能或灵感,就像你在预言家和先知身上看到的那样,他们传达出所有崇高的信息,却一点也不知道它们的意思。

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Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted with a hundred not worth reading. Your true essayist is, in a literary sense, the friend of everybody.

散文家和诗人一样,是天生的而不是后天培养出来的。对于一个值得记住的人来说,这个世界面临着一百种不值得一读的东西。你真正的散文家,在文学意义上,是所有人的朋友。

When two or more hearts unite, anything is possible.

当两颗或多颗心联合在一起时,一切皆有可能。

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

不成熟的诗人模仿;成熟的诗人偷窃。

The price of greatness is responsibility.

伟大的代价是责任。