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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My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.

我的印象是,大多数的女性公共服务工作者都是脾气暴躁的。正是因为他们比任何人都更关心服务,所以他们仍然希望找到一个合理和公平的谈判协议。但他们的耐心已经耗尽。

With every year that passes, I get further away from my target audience, and while I've been happy to think of myself as a father figure to these kids, I'd be a little distressed to be thought of as a grandfather figure.

随着时间的流逝,我离我的目标观众越来越远,虽然我很高兴自己成为这些孩子的父亲,但如果我被认为是祖父,我会有点难过。

I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.

我试图通过我的写作来阐明我所相信的东西:传记——一般来说是历史——可以是文学中最深刻、最高意义上的文学。

If you aim at anything lower that is expecting your audience to be really alert and aware, then you're going to be caught out sooner or later as a composer.

如果你的目标是那些期望你的听众保持警觉和意识的较低的东西,那么你迟早会成为一个作曲家。

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

如果你的日常生活看起来很糟糕,不要责怪它;责备你自己,你还不够诗人,不能唤起它的丰富;对于造物主来说,没有贫穷。

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

前卫艺术的想法对我来说是一件非常可疑的事情,诗歌是新的,它一直是新的,就像雪佛兰每年都是新的一样。

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.

我看不出一个人怎么能一边从事物理学的前沿工作,一边写诗。他们是对立的。

Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum.

真实的人类话语发生在许多语境中,而不是在某种统一的公共论坛中。

Any idea or thought that you accept as true will be accepted as a command by your subconscious mind.

任何你认为是真实的想法或想法都会被你的潜意识接受为命令。

It takes two days to learn everything about a man; to know animals you will need more time.

了解一个人的一切需要两天的时间;要了解动物,你需要更多的时间。

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

没有什么事情发生在一个人身上,除了他所能承受的。

Even in a time of fiscal austerity, education is more than just an expense.

即使在财政紧缩时期,教育也不仅仅是一项开支。

I'm the kind of person that responds strongly to a challenge.

我是那种对挑战反应强烈的人。

Art is the overflow of emotion into action.

艺术是情感在行动中的溢出。