A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.

  • -- Samuel McChord Crothers 塞缪尔·麦克霍德·克罗瑟斯

散文作家厌倦了写散文,想成为一名诗人。所以他每一行都以大写字母开头,然后继续写散文。

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Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment.

诗歌是它自己的媒介;这和写散文很不一样。诗歌可以以意象的方式说话,它有独特的捕捉环境的方式。

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

一个渴望读书的人与一个疲惫的人之间有很大的区别。

I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write a good ad.

我发现写一篇关于好的广告的演讲比写一篇好的广告要容易得多。

So: we're all tired. Now what? Manuscripts written in Club Med?

所以:我们都累了。现在怎么办呢?地中海俱乐部的手稿?