So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.

  • -- June Jordan 朱恩·乔丹

因此,诗歌成为人们之间进行有益对话的一种方式,这些人不仅不为人知,而且彼此沉默。它在人民之间产生了一种对话,保护我们所有人不受所谓领导人的操纵。

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Poets find their voices when they articulate the wishes of the dead, especially those slain as sacrificial talismans to a larger frame of existence.

当诗人表达死者的愿望时,尤其是那些被杀的人,作为一种更大的生存框架的祭祀护身符时,他们找到了自己的声音。

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。