I would especially like to recourt the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.

  • -- John Updike 约翰·厄普代克

我特别想引用诗神的话,她四年前和邮递员私奔了,只是偶尔给我寄来一张潦草的明信片。

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I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone.

我一直对时间很着迷。时间的流逝让我们都很脆弱,因为我们都以自己的方式经历过,它会让我们感到非常孤独。

A mother's got to be there to raise the children. That's all there is to it. I feel badly for those mothers who work hard, and can't do it all the time.

母亲必须在那里抚养孩子。就是这样。我为那些努力工作却不能一直这样做的母亲们感到难过。

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.

你不能教诗歌,但你可以教手艺。

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

所有的俚语都是隐喻,所有的隐喻都是诗歌。