He's going to try to give us a living prose, but this is the end against which it finds itself pressed.

试图给我们一部活生生的作品，但是这中留白成了,他最终努力的结果。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

You say to yourself, "Ah ha! There is an example of somebody taking language by the scruff of the neck and changing it as an individual, exerting an individual will over against the conventional nature of language."

你也许会想，这不就是一个,凭个人力量改变语言,的活生生的例子吗,它的确改变了语言的惯例“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

If you imagine your artwork is living, it can also die.

如果你将艺术品，视为活生生的话，那么它也可以是死的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选