So, when I began what would become, I Love a Broad Margin to My Life, I wanted to write in two youthful forms.
因此,当我开始写《我热爱宽广的生活》时,我想要以两种年轻的形式写作。
I began as if I were a young person and to see whether I could write lyrically again, lyric poetry.
就像我是一名年轻人想见识自己是否能再次抒情地写作,写出抒情的诗篇。
And then I used another young form that is the diary.
接着我用了另一种年轻的形式就是日记。
And, so I began writing a poem with the ...
所以当我开始写诗时……
I guess, the urgency was that I was going to be sixty five years old pretty soon, my birthday was coming up and I was ...
我想急切的是我就快65岁了,我的生日在即……
I wanted to see how I was going to handle time and mortality and,
我想看看该如何应对时光的飞逝以及死亡的迫近,
so I wanted to begin with a diary form because I wanted to, I guess, test how much I was in grace in the world.
所以我想从日记写起,因为我想,我猜,想测试自己有几分的优雅。
Is the Muse going to give me gifts?
缪斯是否会给我带来礼物?
And I sort of made it a rule that I would only write about whatever happened on that day,
这几乎有点成了规则,我只会写下当天发生的事情,
and if it is interesting let me write it, But if it's trivial let me count that to.
有趣的我就写下,微不足道的,就赋予它意义。