诗人的工作是命名无法命名的,指出欺诈,选择立场,引发争论,塑造世界,并阻止它沉睡。
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.
追求真理需要相当大的努力,这就是为什么只有很少人愿意出于对知识的热爱而去追求真理,尽管上帝在人的心灵中植入了对这种知识的自然渴望。
In the state of nature, indeed, all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the laws.