Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time.

  • -- Robert Graves 罗伯特·格雷夫斯

永远不要用“听众”这个词。“除非诗人是为了钱而写作,否则公众的想法在我看来就是错误的。诗人没有“听众”。他们一直在和一个人说话。

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To be entirely honest, I am an extremely confident person, and I don't think I would have gotten into this business if I felt that I wasn't going to succeed and I intend to be in this business, for the rest of my life.

坦白地说,我是一个非常自信的人,如果我觉得我不会成功,我想我不会进入这个行业,我打算在这个行业,我的余生。

I'm definitely responsible for coming in with some basic chord changes, or ideas. Everybody in the band looks to me to come up with the basic seed, so it's not very productive to come in with nothing.

我一定要负责一些基本的和弦变化,或想法。乐队里的每个人都指望我能做出最基本的种子,所以如果什么都不做是不会有多大成效的。

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.

我明白了写作时的感受,不应该像拜伦勋爵站在山顶上,而应该像幼儿园里串珠的孩子,开心、专注、静静地一颗一颗地串起来。

The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility.

公众知道人类是容易犯错的。只有被意识形态蒙蔽了双眼的人才会落入相信自己绝对正确的陷阱。

The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject.

告诉人们气候变化的最好方式是通过非小说类作品。在这方面有大量优秀的文学作品。

One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest.

当然,媒体能为有争议的行为提供的最有力的辩护之一就是公众利益。

If there were no rules about when to applaud, we in the audience would have the right response almost always.

如果没有鼓掌时间的规则,我们这些观众几乎总是能做出正确的反应。

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time."

还有一位老诗人,我不记得他的名字了,他说:“真理是时间的女儿。”

The worst part about being lied to is knowing that to that person, you werent worth the truth.

被骗最糟糕的是你知道对那个人来说,你不值得说真话。

We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.

我们从事娱乐业是为了满足观众的需求。

Getting lost is not fatal. Almost every time, it will make your world.

迷路并不是致命的。几乎每次,它都会创造你的世界。

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

每一个沐浴在爱河中的人都是诗人。

Ideas are just a multiplier of execution.

想法只是执行力的倍增器。

There's time enough, but none to spare.

时间是够了,但没有多余的时间。