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，作和诗人们会在那聚会。

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，诗人们唱起新的诗歌来。

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

一行经常引起人们对诗的情绪或情感的关注。

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

他们把赫克托耳带，游诗人们对此哀悼，妇女们高声哭泣，。

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

首诗激发了人们对印加人等南美古代人的兴趣。

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

希腊医师们宣 红酒有益于身体健康，诗人们也赞叹酒精对创造力的显著裨益。

She lives what poets only write.

她充满诗意地生活着，而诗人们只有在笔下流露。

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

为了解决个问题，诗人们需要更进一步：把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?

难道就是要供给诗人们以咏的题材，并生活在他们那所谓不朽的诗篇之中吗？

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

但我也是伊朗人，伊朗神秘主义诗人们费尔多西、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.

诗人们自己也为个问题所困扰，常常借助比喻来近似地定义诗歌。

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

（掌声）非常感谢，角落里的诗人们。

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

诗人们不得不思考，在当下创作诗歌意味着什么。

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

因此，你会发现音乐们样做，诗人们也样做，诸如此类的事情。

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

诗人们也赞叹 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，我归到那份爱，联系了我的朋友们，联系了我认识的诗人们。

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

诗人们在我们通过临床分析挖掘出种潜在状况之前， 就直觉地意识到了一点。

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.

我告诉人们口语诗创新了诗歌 使它不是只出现在书本上， 它使诗歌被大声朗读传咏 或让人们亲身体验口语诗。

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.

是有史以来最长的赞美普通工作的插图诗，它对人们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，因此诗人们可以在句子中自由地调整词语顺序。