《给西奥的信》
哦，年轻人，我多么希望你能在这里
我要给你看看我的住所，举例说吧
我有货真价实的厨房椅和结实的厨房台子
我要把它绘制下来，我会一直折腾到
把它安置在纸上
画是什么？怎样理解它？
为让生命更好——你觉不出我急切地渴望么？
难道我不能为某种目的去做，并达到善？
你不觉得我们也要到了生命的夜晚？
所有东西上面的天空都发着黄
我一直在寻找蓝色
我想在木盆里种两棵夹竹桃
或许我将开始到处寻找绿色了
为何天空中的亮点
不可以像法国地图上的黑点那样容易被接受？
我何时必将返回另一世界？
上帝，我的孩子呢？孤孤单单地活着
值得吗？接下来我还会自语
你不会再变得忧郁起来吧，你？
所以，年轻人，你一定要来
跟我一起在石南荒原上、在马铃薯田里画画
来吧，和我一起跟在铧犁和牧羊人后面去散步
我那样经常地设想走在瑞斯维克小路上
我们雨后喝着牛奶，在那磨坊里
附：A Letter to Theo
Oh, lad, I should like to have you here
To show you my lodgings. I have, for instance, real
Kitchen chairs, and a real strong Kitchen table.
I am going to draw it, and work at it
Until I have fixed it on paper.
What is drawing? How does one learn it ?
To better my life---don’t you think I eagerly desire it?
Cannot I serve some purpose and be of any good?
Do you think we too shall be at the evening of our life?
There is a yellow sky over everything.
I am seeking for blue all the time.
I am thinking of planting two oleanders in tubs.
Perhaps I shall begin to look about for greens.
Why should not the shining dots of the sky
Be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?
When shall I get back to that other world?
My God, where is my child? Is living alone
Worthwhile? And then I said to myself, you
Are not becoming melancholy again, are you?
So, lad, do come and paint with me
On the heath, in the potato field; come
And walk with me behind the plough and the shepherd.
I think so often of that walk on the Ryswyk road,
Where we drank milk after the rain, at the mill.
《试图移动》
有时在夏日里村庄陷入寂静之中
仿佛陷到地球里面去了
有时路边有一个座位，上面有只猫在小憩
天天看去都像是被遗忘了
有时一幢房屋的墙立在光线之中
灵魂并未感觉遭到背弃
有时在这个城市一个人忽然累倒
死在高速公路的噪声里
有时当海的表面风平浪静
结冰的轮船就会试图向前移动
附：Attempt to Move
Sometimes on a summer’s day the village is sunk
In silence, as if sunk under the earth
Sometimes there is a seat by the side of the road ,with a cat
Resting on it . Each day appears unnoticed.
Sometimes the wall of the house stands in the light.
The spirit does not feel itself forsaken.
Sometimes in the city a man suddenly collapses
And dies in the midst of the noise of the highway.
Sometimes when the sea outside is calm,
Sometimes the frozen ship attempt to move.
《写作生涯》
把油滴到一张白色的笔记本纸页上
在一页薄棉纸上使劲磨擦铅笔
把薄棉纸贴上墙
拿来一个鸡蛋搅拌器
将看见的云都记录下来
把水和焦躁一起放进洗碗盆
砸碎石头看看里面有没有化石
打碎一块煤
从中发现银河
轻轻将两个弹珠咔嚓碰在一起
面壁而坐
你看见光点了么
在那些环形小道的中央？
乐器是被敲打的、摇动的还是吹奏的？
注意，俯下身子写呀写，书页在增高
你是不是又得到了一个新角度？
在一大片硬纸板上挖一些指孔
一边奔跑一边把硬纸板举过头顶
给其他一些讲故事的时髦方法命名
附：The writing Life
Drop some oil on a piece of white notebook paper .
Rub your pencil very hard against a piece of tissue paper.
Put the tissue paper against the wall.
Bring in an eggbeater.
Keep a record of the clouds you see.
Put water and gravel into a dishpan.
Break apart stones to see if they contain fossils.
Break apart a lump of coal.
Find the Milky Way.
Click two marbles together softly.
Sit facing a wall.
Do you see the speck of light
In the center of the circular paths?
Is the instrument beaten or shaken or blown into?
Notice that when you push down,the book moves up.
Have you also gained a change of directions?
Cut finger holes in a large piece of cardboard.
Hold the cardboard over your head while you run.
Name some other modern ways of telling stories.
