Our writer for today thinks so highly of that capacity of literature to embody the human voice that he imagines a whole religious world around him.

我们今天的作者高度赞赏文学的容量,能使人的声音具体化，以致他,想象出了一个宗教的世界。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Knowledge, all the arts and sciences, literature, all of the religious writings of the world are manifestations of that voice that at its origin is God saying, "Let there be light." It's the voice of creation.

只是，所有的艺术，科学，文学，所有世界上宗教的写作的开端,都是上帝的声音，让光明普照世界。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选