The American poet Louise Glück

獲1992年普利策獎的美國女詩人Louise Glück的一句感言和一首詩——

I don’t think poetry is based on optimism. It’s based on survival.

 

《Snowdrops》 
Do you know what I was, how I lived? 
You know
what despair is; then
winter should have meaning for you.

I did not expect to survive,
earth suppressing me. I didn’t expect
to waken again, to feel
in damp earth my body
able to respond again, remembering
after so long how to open again
in the cold light
of earliest spring —
afraid, yes, but among you again
crying yes risk joy
in the raw wind of the new world.