The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it.

  • -- Peter Davison 彼得·戴维森

诗人和观众之间的关系实在是微不足道。重要的是诗人听到了他正在传播的东西。他这么做的原因不是是否有人带着听筒。他希望有人收到它。

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There is among us a far closer relationship than the purely social one of a fraternal organization because we are bound together not only by a single interest but by a common goal. To win. Nothing else matters, and nothing else will do.

我们之间的关系比一个兄弟组织的纯社会关系密切得多,因为我们不仅因为一个单一的利益而且因为一个共同的目标而联系在一起。赢。没有其他事情重要,也没有其他事情可以做。

The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work.

表演诗人的问题在于他们似乎没有读过任何东西。所以他们的作品中没有真正意义上的诗歌传统。

And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.

读诗的人很多,但读一个诗人的人却不多。

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

死亡结束的是生命,而不是一段关系。