卡莱尔 《英雄和英雄崇拜》：

The Poet who could merely sit on a chair, and compose stanzas, would never make a stanza worth much.

那些纯粹坐在椅子上作诗的人，决不会作出一节非常有价值的诗。

原文：

The Poet who could merely sit on a chair, and compose stanzas, would never make a stanza worth much. He could not sing the Heroic warrior, unless he himself were at least a Heroic warrior too. I fancy there is in him the Politician, the Thinker, Legislator, Philosopher;—in one or the other degree, he could have been, he is all these.

那些纯粹坐在椅子上作诗的人，决不会作出一节非常有价值的诗。至少他本人也应是一个勇敢的勇士，否则他就不能歌唱英勇的战士。我想象，伟人集政治家、思想家、立法者、哲学家于一身，在这种或那种程度上，他过去和现在都有所有这些专家的气质。