“The brilliance of the earth is the brilliance of every paradise,” Wallace Stevens wrote; and one can only write the poems of the earth, as Darwin and Freud did, if one is happily convinced that there is nowhere else to go. When transience is not merely an occasion for mourning, we will have inherited the earth. And it was at inheriting the earth—making sense of our lives as bound by mortality not seduced by transcendence, by after-lives—that they both worked so prodigiously. —Adam Phillips, Darwin’s Worms

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朴实轶事（弗罗斯特和史蒂文斯）

“地球的光辉是每一个天堂的光辉，”华莱士史蒂文斯写道；并且人们只能像达尔文和弗洛伊德那样写出地球上的诗歌，前提是人们高兴地确信无处可去。当短暂不仅仅是哀悼的机会时，我们将继承地球。正是在继承地球方面——让我们的生活被死亡所束缚，而不是被超越和来世所诱惑——他们都如此出色地工作。——亚当·菲利普斯，达尔文的蠕虫