There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man.

  • -- William H. Hunt 威廉H.亨特

没有什么比诗人的比喻破坏了他的文字,使其不能用于人类的日常用途更能说明为什么一幅画的特征会被这样富有想象力的暗示所歪曲了。

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People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example; I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust me.

人们总是对该说什么提出建议。我给你们举个例子;我不读递给我的东西。人们会说,‘给,这是你的演讲,或者这是演讲的想法。他们改变了。相信我。

Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.

通过写作,通过这个过程,他们意识到自己变得比生活中任何其他部分都更聪明,更诚实,更有想象力。

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.

我喜欢有人建议我做一件事,而不喜欢有人把全部告诉我。当每一个细节都被给出时,头脑就会得到满足,想象力就会失去使用自己翅膀的欲望。

There is no reason inherent in the real resources available to us why we cannot move rapidly within the next two or three years to a state of genuine full employment.

我们所拥有的实际资源中没有任何内在的理由说明,为什么我们不能在今后两、三年内迅速进入真正充分就业的状态。

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

没有理由成为墓地里最富有的人。你不能在那里做生意。

I think of feminism as a socially just and imaginative world.

我认为女权主义是一个社会公正和充满想象力的世界。