We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice.

  • -- Jean de La Bruyere 布吕耶尔

我们很少后悔说得太少,却常常后悔说得太多:这是一句庸俗陈腐的格言,全世界都知道,但全世界都不实行。

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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

诗歌是语言的命运之一……有人会说,诗意的意象,就其新颖性而言,为语言打开了一个未来。

Don't say what you don't want repeated.

不要重复你不想说的话。