Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

  • -- Theodore Roosevelt 西奥多·罗斯福

雄辩不能很好地代替行动,我们只相信雄辩。如果我们真的想成为一个伟大的国家,我们不能光说不练;我们必须行动起来。

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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.

我一直都很华丽。充满了修辞。这就是我的缺点。在我写作的整个过程中,我不得不与之对抗,因为这可能是一种破坏性的姿态。

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

我们从与别人的争吵中提炼出来的,是修辞,而从与自己的争吵中提炼出来的,是诗歌。