When you're a student of poetry, you're lucky if you don't realize how untalented you are until you get a little better. Otherwise, you would just stop.

  • -- Tony Hoagland 侯格兰

当你是一个学诗的学生时,如果你没有意识到自己有多么没有天赋,直到你变得更好一点,你就是幸运的。否则,你就会停下来。

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Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.

一个作家对小说艺术或工艺的了解,只会使他对写作的需要或欲望减少一点点。最后他知道了所有的诀窍,却无话可说。

The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.

作家必须涉入生活,如同涉入大海,但只能涉入肚脐。