I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.

  • -- Carol Ann Duffy 卡罗尔·安·达菲

我喜欢认为我是我们这个时代的诗人。

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Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time.

永远不要用“听众”这个词。“除非诗人是为了钱而写作,否则公众的想法在我看来就是错误的。诗人没有“听众”。他们一直在和一个人说话。

Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.

服务是我们为生活所付的租金。这就是生活的目的,而不是你在业余时间做的事情。

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.

如果一个诗人是任何人,他是一个人,他的事情变得无关紧要的人-一个人痴迷于创造。

I learn new things all the time.

我一直在学习新东西。