Reopen no old wounds. Be as if you had never returned and looked in to me to see my laboring humilities, my few scrubbed pennies, hungry to grab, quick to deprive, sullen, unloved, mean-minded son of my flesh. Son! Son!"

不要再来碰我的伤疤，像你从前没有回来看过我似的,来看我的辛苦和谦卑，看我被掏得一干二净的钱袋，饿了抢，急了打，我亲生的没有感情，冷酷自私的儿子！“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

He wants to deprive poets of their power to enchant, and something Socrates admits in the tenth book of the Republic, to which he himself has been highly susceptible to the enchantment of the poets.

他想剥去诗人使人着迷的力量，可苏格拉底,也在《理想国》的十册中承认，他个人,对诗人的魅力抵抗力很弱。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选