If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it.

  • -- Carol Ann Duffy 卡罗尔·安·达菲

如果我在皇室婚礼上受到启发,想写一些关于人们在婚姻或民事伴侣关系中走到一起的故事,我只会很感激能对这首诗有个想法。如果我不这样做,我会忽略它。

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So I never spend a lot of time analyzing why people respond to my work. But I think that it's just the joy, a passion for life, that I think has always been in my characters. Beyond that, I'm just grateful for it.

所以我从不花很多时间去分析为什么人们会对我的工作做出反应。但我认为这只是一种快乐,一种对生活的激情,我认为这一直存在于我的角色中。除此之外,我很感激。

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

我很感激——尽管我跟不上——大量的文章、论文和教科书,它们意味着分享关于诗歌本质的见解。

We do a disservice to society if we ignore the evidence which shows that stable families tend to be associated with better outcomes for children.

如果我们忽视那些表明稳定的家庭往往与儿童的更好结果相关的证据,那么我们就是在损害社会。

It is an attention-getter. I mean, it's hard to ignore a woman lugging a cello around.

这是一个吸引注意力的方法。我是说,很难忽视一个拖着大提琴的女人。