Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.

  • -- John Adams 约翰·亚当斯

这里有一切可以抓住眼睛、耳朵和想象的东西——一切可以迷惑和迷惑无知的人的东西。我想知道路德是怎么打破这个魔咒的。

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It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

复制一个人看到的东西很好,但是把一个人现在只在记忆中看到的东西画出来要好得多。这是一种想象与记忆合作的转变。

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

我反对自然。我一点也不喜欢大自然。我认为自然是非常不自然的。我认为真正自然的东西是梦,是大自然无法触碰的腐朽。

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

当人们凭感觉行事时,他们的激情是有界限的;但当他们受到想象的影响时,就没有了。

My publicist always said as long as they pronounce your name or spell your name right, it's all good.

我的公关人员总是说,只要他们把你的名字念对或拼对,就没问题。

I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.

我宁愿挨打,做一个男子汉,也不愿当选为一只小狗。

My mum always says work goes in waves: you have a good spell and then it dips.

我妈妈总是说,工作就像波浪一样,一会儿好一会儿坏。

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.

魅力是一种不用问清楚问题就能得到肯定答案的方法。

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

诗歌的魅力已经足够了,但散文也必须令人信服。

He that rises late must trot all day.

晚起的人必须整天小跑。