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.

  • -- Tahar Ben Jelloun 塔哈尔·本·杰伦

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。

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Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

任何健康的人都可以两天不吃东西,但不能没有诗。

The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.

诗歌的作用不在于使我们准确地思考,而在于使我们真实地感受。