To live is to leave traces, and poetry is the most enduring of them all.
活着就是留下痕迹,而诗歌是所有痕迹中最持久的
Society can and does execute its own mandates, and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself.
A good mathematician is someone who can see analogies between theorems; a great mathematician is someone who can see analogies between analogies.