It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.

  • -- Gerard Manley Hopkins 杰拉德·曼利·霍普金斯

诗歌没有捷径可走,这是一件令人高兴的事。现在世人应该知道,除非飞到帕纳索斯,否则是到不了帕纳索斯的。

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A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.

一幅画必须具有产生光的真正力量,很长一段时间以来,我一直有意识地通过光,或者说在光中表达自己。

I don't like to read. The only things I read are gossip columns. If someone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures.

我不喜欢读书。我只看八卦专栏。如果有人给我一本书,最好有很多图片。

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

很多时候,你不得不假装参加一个你并不真正感兴趣的游行队伍,以达到你要去的地方。

A walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.

一个行走的影子,一个可怜的演员,在舞台上趾高气扬,焦躁不安,然后就再也听不见了。

I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.

我看得出来,作为一个作家,当你在写一首歌的时候,沿着低音线走是一个很受欢迎的举动。

Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.

诗歌是一种伪造的创造物,它创造的东西是不真实的,就好像它们是真实的一样。