I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.

-- Tobias Wolff 托比亚斯·沃尔夫

我相信短篇小说的形式和诗歌一样不同，在我看来最好的小说在精神上更接近诗歌而不是小说。

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The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius.

北方的形式观念更像是一个过程。表单的各个单元相互重叠。你不知道一些事情在哪里停止，新的事情在哪里开始。这是典型的西贝利厄斯。

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Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril.

诗歌是我们心灵的热线，如果我们忘记了这种情感力量，我们就会陷入危险。

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The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

我所寻求的那种诗意，寓于人所不能触及的对象之中。

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Adult stem cells tend not to form tumors.

成体干细胞一般不会形成肿瘤。

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