There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

  • -- Philip Levine 菲利普·莱文

我的诗里永远有劳动人民,因为我和他们一起长大,我是一个有记忆的诗人。

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Here they have no time for the fine graces of poetry, unless it freely grows in deep compulsion, like water in the well, woven into the texture of the soil in a strong pattern.

在这里,他们没有时间欣赏诗歌的优美之处,除非诗歌像井里的水一样,在深沉的冲动中自由地生长,以强烈的形式编织进泥土的质地中。

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

诗歌是一种最精练、最有力的语言。