Yes—the springtimes needed you. Often a star

was waiting for you to notice it. A wave rolled toward you

out of the distant past, or as you walked

under an open window, a violin

yielded itself to your hearing. All this was mission.

—Duino Elegies, Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke

是的——春日需要你。

往往，有一顆星星正等待著你的察覺(jué)。

有一陣波浪從遙遠(yuǎn)的往昔向你涌來(lái)，

抑或是，你從一扇敞開(kāi)的窗戶(hù)下走過(guò)，

有一段小提琴，任憑你聆聽(tīng)。

以上種種，皆為使命。

——《杜伊諾哀歌》萊納·馬利亞·里爾克，詩(shī)人

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.

那美好的仗我已經(jīng)打過(guò)了，當(dāng)跑的路我已經(jīng)跑過(guò)了，所信的道我已經(jīng)守住了。

—《圣經(jīng)》

Let's withdraw. And meet the time as it meets us.

讓我們泰然自若，與自己的時(shí)代狹路相逢。

——莎士比亞