While on the shop and street I gazed My body of a sudden blazed; And twenty minutes more or less It seemed, so great my happiness, That I was blessed and could bless.

当我凝视着店铺和街道,我的身躯突然开始熊熊燃烧;,大约持续了二十分钟吧,我的幸福是如此巨大，我受到祝福，也能把祝福施加。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Slowly I began to forge in the depths of my mind" this is the very top of the page--" a mechanism that repressed all the dreams and desires that the Chicago streets, the newspapers, the movies were evoking in me.

渐渐地，我开始进入自己的思想“,这是最上面的一句“,“这期间抑制住了芝加哥的街道、,报纸、电影在我心中唤起的，所有幻想和欲望。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选