"The combination of the sweep and scope of Melville's language, the beauty of the story, the depth of the characters all pushed me into a whole new realm of composing and thinking of what music is onstage."

VOA: special.2010.06.11

Here, this destruction brings forth a new order, a new form of life that Yeats calls "terrible beauty."

这时，毁灭带来了新秩序，带来了新生活,叶芝称之为，惊人之美“

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

With her vision of the moderate and temperate enjoyment of nature's beauty, the Lady is sketching this new seventeenth-century ideal of married chastity: the ideal of the temperate, moderate indulgence in sexual pleasure, of course, within the sanctified confines of marriage.

对于自然物资合理适度,享用的先见之明，她是在为新17世纪描绘一个,婚姻贞节的理想，有关，性生活中适当放纵的理想，当然，那是在有神圣婚姻制约前提下的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"Stone Offerings" The book,published by Lightpoint Press, offers a new take on the Incan ruins the enduring strength with lessons about and beauty of a city built in harmony with nature.

VOA: standard.2009.12.15