You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.

  • -- Rita Dove 丽塔·达夫

在你看到一些东西之前,你必须想象它是可能的。证据就在你面前,但是如果你不能想象以前从未存在过的东西,那是不可能的。

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The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.

一个男孩的想象力是健康的,一个男人成熟的想象力是健康的;但在这两者之间有一段生命的空间,在这空间里,灵魂处于骚动之中,性格未定,生活道路未定,雄心壮志高瞻远瞩。

Is it possible for the rose to say, "I will give my fragrance to the good people who smell me, but I will withhold it from the bad?

玫瑰花岂可说、“我要把我的香气给那好闻我的人、却要阻止那恶闻我的人呢。”

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

杰作就是一劳永逸地说出来,陈述出来,完成了,这样它就完整地存在于你的脑海中,即使只是在后面。

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

旅行的作用是用现实来调节想象,而不是思考事情可能是怎样的,而是看到事情本来的样子。

It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing.

除非你在做某件事,而有些人却宁愿你不去做,否则这件事就不值得你去做。

Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.

无论谁为一个人写传记,完美的客观总是不可能的。

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

绘画是一种信仰,它赋予人们无视舆论的责任。

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

如果你认为自己是自由的,就没有逃脱的可能。