If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

  • -- Muriel Rukeyser 鲁凯泽

如果世界上任何一天都没有诗歌,那么诗歌就会在那一天诞生。因为会有无法忍受的饥饿。

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I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.

我从事诗歌创作,是因为迫切需要谴责不公、剥削和羞辱。我知道这不足以改变世界。但是保持沉默将是一种无法容忍的共谋。

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

也许真相取决于在湖边散步。