Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.

  • -- Thomas Carlyle 托马斯·卡莱尔

每一个诗人……发现自己出生在散文之中。他必须从现实世界的琐碎和阻碍中挣扎出来,进入理想的自由和无限。

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Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back.

不要光顾连锁书店。每次我看到某个作家计划在连锁书店读书和签名,我就想告诉他,他在背后捅那些独立书店的竹杠。

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

感受最美丽的生活意味着阅读一些美丽的东西,随时准备在语言的流动中领悟诗歌的突然闪现。