The realization of desire for this young Yeats is something only possible in art.

对年轻的叶芝来说这种愿望的,实现只有在艺术里才可能。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

The only purpose of the work of art is to afford aesthetic bliss.

艺术作品的唯一目的是提供美学极乐。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Only human art or science or art, human contrivance, can bring about peace.

只有人类的艺术或科学，人类的发明，能够带来和平。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Musical notation is a particularly Western phenomenon and when you stop and think about it only we in the West, and by West what I mean is the United States and Canada and Western Europe and Russia, parts of South America, only we use musical notation and we use it principally for our high art music.

音乐记谱法是西方所特有的,你可以停下好好想想,只有我们这些土生土长的西方人,所谓西方,我指的是美国,加拿大,还有西欧和俄罗斯,包括一部分南美国家,只有我们使用音乐记谱法,并且我们把音乐记谱法应用于高雅音乐

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选