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日趋衰老的以创作为职业的人们,无论是诗人、画家、小说家还是剧作家,他们的精力和对创作的渴望仍然是最可宝贵的品质。但这种人的最大悲剧在于,在衰老过程中,他们的创造性的思维能力和逐渐无法实现其理想的能力之间的差距正日益扩大。不妨回忆一下英国画家邓肯·格兰特。他在九十多岁的高龄还挥毫作画,而且坚持要去巴黎参加画展。朋友们让他坐到轮椅上,横渡英吉利海峡。格兰特兴致勃勃地参观了展品。但在归途中,他患了感冒,转为肺炎,因而一回到家里就去世了。这一事实便成为他那全部献身于艺术的精力充沛的一生的自然终结。
As aging, creative-minded people, whether they are poets, painters, novelists or playwrights, their energy and desire for creativity are still the most precious qualities. But the biggest tragedy of such people is that the gap between their creative thinking ability and their ability to progressively fail to achieve their dreams is growing in the aging process. May wish to recall the British artist Duncan Grant. He painted in his late twenties and insisted on going to Paris to attend the art exhibition. Friends let him sit in a wheelchair across the English Channel. Grant visited the exhibits in good spirits. But on the way home, he had a cold and turned pneumonia, so he died on his way home. This fact has become the natural end of his energetic life dedicated entirely to the arts.