The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.

  • -- W. Somerset Maugham 威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆

散文作家只有在诗人去世时才能退居二线。

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I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically different from the last.

我想这其中也包含了刻意改变的因素。至少在我看来,我的每一本书都与上一本书截然不同。

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

诗歌的魅力已经足够了,但散文也必须令人信服。

I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.

我喜欢认为我是我们这个时代的诗人。

Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.

今天的许多诗歌都是散文和拙劣的散文。