你接近生命的终点——不,不是生命本身,而是其他东西:生命中任何改变的可能性的终结。
You get towards the end of life—no, not life itself, but of something else: the end of any likelihood of change in that life.
在科学中,荣誉归于说服世界的人,而不是第一个想到这个想法的人。
The best works of art are those that continue to reveal new meanings over time.
The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.
The poem is an act of the mind, not a transcription of the world.