Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most discouragement possible.

  • -- Robert Fitzgerald 罗伯特·菲茨杰拉德

诗人需要的是鼓励吗?悬而未决的问题。也许他需要泄气。事实上,相当多的人需要更多的沮丧,尽可能的沮丧。

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We're not doing this because we think there will be no jobs and this will be a safety net. We think it's what musicians should have, what young musicians deserve and need. Our view is that musicians need a broader education.

我们这样做不是因为我们认为会没有工作,这将是一个安全网。我们认为这是音乐家应该拥有的,是年轻音乐家应该拥有和需要的。我们认为音乐家需要更广泛的教育。

The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.

事实上,每一个思想家,每一个哲学家,当他因为实际的需要而被迫放弃他片面的知识工作的时候,就立即回到人类的一般观点上来。

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

真爱就像鬼一样;每个人都在谈论它,但很少有人见过它。

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

慷慨是给予多于你所能,骄傲是索取少于你所需要。

A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

理论不像事实,正如照片不像人一样。

Any idiot can make money. Keeping money, very few can do.

任何白痴都能赚钱。存钱,很少有人能做到。