If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

  • -- Charles Baudelaire 查尔斯·波德莱尔

如果诗人追求道德目标,他的诗歌力量就会减弱。

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What I learned is that policymakers have to force consideration of actions that may not have occurred to them at the time.

我学到的是,政策制定者必须强制考虑他们当时可能没有想到的行动。

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

意见会改变,举止会改变,信仰会起起落落,但是道德律法是写在永恒的桌子上的。

I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.

我不得不说,在空军一号上坐飞机会让你在普通航空公司做经济舱时感到不舒服。

A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams.

诗人应该在他的文章中留下痕迹,而不是证据。只有痕迹才会产生梦。

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.

如果我们只能在自然中找到上帝,我们就没有道德上的上帝。

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

我爱上了社会工作,这就是我作为一个诗人的下场。