" One or two. I didn't think half as much of Newman as I do now, and I thought a great deal more of the tinkling quatrains of Fitzgerald. I could not read Goethe's Wilhelm Meister; now I think it his masterpiece" .

" 也有过一两次。 我过去对纽曼作品的看法远不如现在，而对菲茨杰拉德那读起来音韵铿锵的四行诗则比现在的看法要好得多。 那时候，我对歌德的《威廉·迈斯特》简直读不下去，而现在我觉得这是他的杰作。"