Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back.

  • -- Robert Morgan 罗伯特·摩根

我们喜欢诗歌的部分原因是它看起来很古老,它有古语言和古形式的权威,它是永恒的,它可以追溯到古代。

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When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy.

当我们远离全球变暖,京都议定书,当我们不负责任地在向非洲艾滋病迈进的道路上行动迟缓,当我们不推进和实践我们自己的言论和标准时,我们发出了一个可怕的信息,那就是表里不一和伪善。

The fact is that I've always been interested in politics and public service. I enjoy it and I think it's important and I believe in it. And I've been fortunate to be here when the opportunity has presented itself.

事实上,我一直对政治和公共服务感兴趣。我喜欢它,我认为它很重要,我相信它。我很幸运能在机会出现的时候来到这里。

When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

当你还是个孩子的时候,你看不到颜色,我从来没有想过我的朋友是黑人。直到我十几岁开始尝试说唱,这才成为一个问题。

I probably would be continuing to do voice-overs, continuing to do cartoon shows, and at the same time I'd probably be on a sitcom or a dramatic television show.

我可能会继续做画外音,继续做卡通节目,同时我可能会出演情景喜剧或戏剧电视节目。

I'm always tinkering with something - suddenly I'll think I can work with wood, but then I'll realize I can't, so I go back to sewing.

我总是在修修补补——突然间我觉得我可以用木头做工作,但后来我意识到我做不到,所以我又回去做缝纫了。

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

语言是一只裂开的水壶,我们在上面敲出曲调,让熊跟着跳舞,而我们却时时刻刻想让星星怜悯。

Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.

创造力发生在当下,而在当下我们是永恒的。

I have tried, in all the ways I can, to make timeless music.

我已经尽我所能去创作永恒的音乐。

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

空间之于地点,犹如永恒之于时间。

Don't fall back into old patterns.

不要重蹈覆辙。