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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Describing the person I am would best be through music. When I'm up on stage and I'm singing my heart out, I am always reminded of life's best things.

用音乐来描述我是什么样的人是最好的。当我站在舞台上,放声歌唱时,我总是想起生活中最美好的事情。

The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.

另一方面,尽管如此,人们在生命的关键时刻接触诗歌。

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

树林里分出两条路,而我——我选择了人迹罕至的那条路,这使一切都不同了。

I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.

我写音乐是为了取悦自己。希望导演也能喜欢。