So there were coffee houses dedicated to literature, and writers and poets would congregate there.

当时有很多文学主题的咖啡馆，作家和会在那聚会。

Then came the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, and the poets sang new songs.

后来爆发了法国大革命和拿破仑战争，唱起新的歌来。

This line often brings attention to the mood or emotion of the poem.

这一行经常引起对的情绪或情感的关注。

They took Hector to his home, and the minstrels mourned while the women wept aloud.

他把赫克托耳带回家，吟游对此哀，高声哭泣，。

This poem also encouraged interest in the ancient people of South America - like the Incans.

这首激发了对印加等南美古代的兴趣。

Greek physicians considered wine to be good for health, and poets testified to its creative qualities.

希腊医师宣 红酒有益于身体健康，也赞叹酒精对创造力的显著裨益。

She lives what poets only write.

她充满意地生活着，而只有在笔下流露这些。

For that, rhymers needed to take another step: organize this info into tables.

为了解决这个问题，需要更进一步：把这样的信息编排成韵图。

Is it to furnish subjects to the poets, and live in their immortal rhymes as they call them?

难道就是要供给以吟咏的题材，并生活在他那些所谓不朽的篇之中吗？

But I'm Iranian too, and I have the ancient wisdom of Iranian mystics, Ferdowsi, Hafez and Rumi, running through my veins.

但我也是伊朗，伊朗神秘主义费尔多西、哈菲兹和鲁米的古老智慧流淌在我的血液里。

Poets themselves have struggled with this question, often using metaphors to approximate a definition.

自己也为这个问题所困扰，常常借助比喻来近似地定义歌。

(Applause) Thank you very much, the poets in the corner.

（掌声）非常感谢，角落里的。

And Poets had  to reckon with what it meant to write poetry now.

不得不思考，在当下创作歌意味着什么。

So you'd find musicians doing it, poets doing it, this kind of thing.

因此，你会发现音乐家这样做，也这样做，诸如此类的事情。

And in the area that’s now Japan, people made sake from rice.

也赞叹 酒精对创造力的显着裨益。

And so I returned to what that love was and contacted friends, contacted poets I knew.

于是，我回归到那份爱，联系了我的朋友，联系了我认识的。

Poets intuitively sensed this underlying condition long before we were able to dig it out with our prodding clinical scrutiny.

在我通过临床分析挖掘出这种潜在状况之前， 就直觉地意识到了这一点。

I tell people it involves creating poetry that doesn't just want to sit on paper, that something about it demands it be heard out loud or witnessed in person.

我告诉口语创新了歌 使它不是只出现在书本上， 它使歌被大声朗读传咏 或让亲身体验口语。

It's the longest illustrated poem in praise of ordinary work ever written and it has a huge impact on how people perceive the prestige of work.

这是有史以来最长的赞美普通工作的插图，它对如何看待工作的声望产生了巨大影响。

Again, there was no source book that laid out the rules for putting words together, so poets could play around with word order in a sentence.

再次强调， 当时并没有一本规范用词组合规则的参考书，因此可以在句子中自由地调整词语顺序。