A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.

  • -- Jay-Z 杰伊兹

诗人的使命是让文字比平常发挥更大的作用,使它们在不止一个层面上发挥作用。

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When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

当权力把人引向傲慢时,诗歌提醒他自己的局限性。当权力缩小了人类关注的范围时,诗歌提醒着人类存在的丰富性和多样性。权力腐败时,诗歌净化。

Of course, the wind sort of swept up and the music was flying around in mid air and they were trying to play off it. You had to be there. It was quite funny.

当然,风刮起来了,音乐在半空中飞舞,他们试图把它播放出来。你必须在场。这很有趣。

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

如果我的诗歌的目标是实现什么,那就是把人们从他们看到和感觉到的有限的方式中解放出来。

I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.

我碰巧是在没有流行趋势的时候进入音乐行业的。