Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

  • -- Thomas Gray 格雷

诗是呼吸着的思想,是燃烧着的言语。

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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.

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。

Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different.

也许我受够了具体的诗歌。有很多不好的具体诗歌,此外,它与视觉诗歌混淆,这是完全不同的。

The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

这只聪明的猫吃奶酪,大口大口地往老鼠洞里呼气。

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

她读书就像人呼吸空气一样,是为了充实和生活。