The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

  • -- T. S. Eliot T.S.艾略特

对于诗人来说,最重要的是尽可能少写。

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I always performed when I was a child. My parents got very annoyed, because my brother and I had our little bedrooms upstairs, and I would plaster the house with posters with arrows pointing upstairs.

我小时候总是表演。我的父母非常生气,因为我哥哥和我的小卧室在楼上,我会用指向楼上的箭头的海报贴满房子。

Getting older, I realize I've had a very fortunate life. I've had a budget that's allowed me to do just about any silly little thing the mind could conjure up, and I'm still alive and here.

随着年龄的增长,我意识到我有一个非常幸运的生活。我有一个预算,可以让我做任何脑子里想出来的傻事,而我还活着,还在这里。

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

诗歌是诗人的作品,不是人民或社区的作品;艺术创作永远只能是个人心灵的产物。

I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible.

我从来没有在草稿中写过任何东西,甚至连一份购物清单都没有,尽管我从朋友那里听说这实际上是可能的。

There’s no such thing as handsome princes, she told herself. There’s no such thing as happily ever after.

没有什么英俊的王子,她对自己说。从此以后再也没有幸福可言。

Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.

数据是一件宝贵的东西,比系统本身持续的时间更长。

I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active.

我认为保持学习和保持大脑活跃是非常重要的。

Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.

尽可能少给你的员工发工资,你也会从他们那里得到同样的回报。

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

诗人只是神的阐释者。

I think it's important to vote.

我认为投票很重要。