I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.

  • -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich 托马斯·贝利·奥尔德里奇

我喜欢有人建议我做一件事,而不喜欢有人把全部告诉我。当每一个细节都被给出时,头脑就会得到满足,想象力就会失去使用自己翅膀的欲望。

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There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man.

没有什么比诗人的比喻破坏了他的文字,使其不能用于人类的日常用途更能说明为什么一幅画的特征会被这样富有想象力的暗示所歪曲了。

A suggestion had been made to me looking toward a professorship in some Western college, but after due consideration, I declined to consider the matter.

曾有人建议我去某所西方大学当教授,但经过适当考虑后,我拒绝考虑这件事。

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

我们忘记了重要的是从想象开始的。

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

没有想象力就没有恐惧。