To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

  • -- John Andrew Holmes 约翰·安德鲁·福尔摩斯

感受最美丽的生活意味着阅读一些美丽的东西,随时准备在语言的流动中领悟诗歌的突然闪现。

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I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I really enjoyed and saw myself doing. And I bought books on it.

我对杂耍很感兴趣。这是唯一的一种纪律,就是在舞台上表演五分钟,这是我真正喜欢并看到自己在做的事情。我在上面买了书。

You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading... and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I'm like that all the time.

你知道当你看书然后睡着的时候,你在看书,看书……突然你发现你的眼睛闭上了?我一直都是这样的。

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

这是一个很好的规则,读完一本新书后,在你读完一本旧书之前,绝不允许自己再读一本新书。

Can we not force from widowed poetry, Now thou art dead, great Donne, one elegy To crown thy hearse?

伟大的多恩,既然你已辞世,我们怎能不从寡居的诗歌中强求一首挽歌来为你的灵车加冕?

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

诗歌是用真实的蟾蜍创造想象花园的艺术。

My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.

如果我继续这样逃避现实,我的脑袋会爆炸的。