A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
诗人的工作是命名不可命名之物，指出欺诈，选边站队，引发争论，塑造世界，并阻止它沉睡。
True understanding comes from empathy.
Real music comes from the heart, not technique.
指文章的创作是流传千古的事业，而其中的得失只有作者自己心里最清楚。
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
To me, fearless is not the absence of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, fearless is living in spite of those things, every single day.