诗歌是在翻译中丢失的东西 - 也是幸存下来的东西。
"Poetry is what gets lost in translation - and also what survives."
身为爱尔兰人就是要明白，这个世界终将让你心碎。
要理解一种文化，首先必须理解它的故事。
I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile, and cunning.