活着是世界上最罕见的事，大多数人只是存在，仅此而已。

意指任何收获都需要付出相应的代价。

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

伟大的艺术总是承载着巨大的痛苦。

Words are the wings of thought, and poetry is their highest flight.

教学是我最伟大的艺术作品。

过去从未死去，它甚至还没有过去。

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.

写作是面对过去的一种方式。