——W. Whitman
Sometimes with one I love I fill myself with rage for fear I effuse unreturn'd love,
But now I think there is no unreturn'd love, the pay is certain one way or another,
(I loved a certain person ardently and my love was not return'd, Yet out of that I have written these songs.)
惠特曼
有時我跟所愛的人在一起,心里充滿怒火,生怕我付出的愛得不到回報。
但如今我知道沒有得不到回報的愛情,這回報肯定有,不是以這種方式,就是以那種方式。
(我熱烈地愛過一個女人,我的愛沒有得到回報,但從那次愛我寫出這些歌。)