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【演講者及介紹】Sarah Kay

薩拉·凱(Sarah Kay)是一位詩(shī)人、演員、教育家，也是“聲音計(jì)劃”(Project VOICE)的創(chuàng)始人。“聲音計(jì)劃”是一個(gè)利用口語(yǔ)詩(shī)歌娛樂(lè)、教育學(xué)生和教師的組織。

【演講主題】“鳥(niǎo)中之鳥(niǎo)”

【中英文字幕】

翻譯者Homer Li 校對(duì)者 Jen Low

00:12

I have a friend named Kaveh Akbar, who is afellow poet. And Kaveh found this photo online of the anatomical heart of ablue whale that scientists had hung on a hook from the ceiling, which is howthey were able to observe that the heart of a blue whale is big enough that aperson can stand up fully inside of it. And when Kaveh shared this photoonline, he did so with the caption, "This is another reminder that theuniverse has already written the poem you were planning on writing."

我的朋友卡韋赫·阿克巴是一個(gè)詩(shī)人?？f赫在網(wǎng)上發(fā)現(xiàn)了這張照片，上面是一只解剖了的藍(lán)鯨心臟，科學(xué)家把心臟掛在天花板的鉤子上，使得他們能夠發(fā)現(xiàn)藍(lán)鯨的心臟如此之大，一個(gè)人可以完全站在里面。當(dāng)卡韋赫在網(wǎng)上分享這張照片時(shí)，他附上了這個(gè)標(biāo)題，“這再次提醒了我們，我們計(jì)劃創(chuàng)作的詩(shī)歌早已被這個(gè)宇宙寫(xiě)好了。”

00:52

And when I first saw that, I was horrified.I was like, "Come on, man! I'm trying to invent new metaphors! I'm tryingto discover beauty that hasn't been discovered yet. What do you mean, theuniverse is always going to get there before me?" And I know this isn't auniquely poet problem, but on days when the world feels especially big orespecially impossible or especially full of grandeur, those are the days when Ifeel, "What do I possibly have to contribute to all of this?"

當(dāng)我第一眼看到這個(gè)標(biāo)題，我駭然了。我心說(shuō)，“不是吧，伙計(jì)! 我在嘗試創(chuàng)造新的隱喻! 我在嘗試發(fā)掘尚未被發(fā)現(xiàn)的美。為什么宇宙總是比我先到達(dá)那里?”我知道這不單純是詩(shī)人面臨的問(wèn)題，而是在有的日子里，我感到這個(gè)世界一望無(wú)際，深不可測(cè)，氣壯山河，同時(shí)我也開(kāi)始思考，“我能為這一切做些什么呢？”

01:28

Not long ago, I saw this video that some ofyou may have seen. It makes the internet rounds every couple of months. Thereare these birds that are called starlings, and they fly in what's called a"murmuration," which is generally just a big cloud of birds. Andsomeone happened to catch a quick video on their phone of these starlingsflying. And at first, it's just an amorphous blob, and then there's a momentwhere the birds shift, and they form the shape of a starling in the sky!

不久前，我看到這段視頻，你們有些人可能看過(guò)。它每隔幾個(gè)月就會(huì)在互聯(lián)網(wǎng)上傳播一次。有一種鳥(niǎo)叫做椋鳥(niǎo)，成群結(jié)隊(duì)飛來(lái)飛去，簡(jiǎn)而言之就是一大群鳥(niǎo)。有人碰巧用手機(jī)拍了這些椋鳥(niǎo)飛行的短視頻。一開(kāi)始，它只是毫無(wú)規(guī)律的一團(tuán)，接著，在一個(gè)時(shí)刻，鳥(niǎo)群發(fā)生了改變，它們?cè)谔炜招纬闪艘恢婚ｘB(niǎo)的形狀！

02:02

(Laughter)

（笑聲）

02:03

And as soon as I saw it, I was like,

當(dāng)我看到這一幕，我不禁想，

02:05

(Gasps) "The universe has alreadywritten the poem you were planning on writing!"

（驚嘆）“你計(jì)劃創(chuàng)作的詩(shī)歌早已被這個(gè)宇宙寫(xiě)好了！”

02:09

(Laughter)

（笑聲）

02:10

Except, for the first time, it didn't fillme with despair. Instead, I thought, "OK. Maybe it's not my job to inventsomething new. Maybe instead it's my job to listen to what the universe isshowing me and to keep myself open to what the universe offers, so that whenit's my turn, I can hold something to the light, just for a moment, just for aslong as I have.

不同以往，我第一次沒(méi)有為此感到失落。相反，我想，“好的。也許我的工作并不是發(fā)掘新事物。也許恰恰相反，我的工作就是傾聽(tīng)世界在向我展示什么，并開(kāi)懷接受這個(gè)世界的贈(zèng)予，這樣在輪到我時(shí)，我就能為這個(gè)世界做點(diǎn)什么，哪怕只是短暫的一刻，我所擁有的一刻。

02:43

The universe has already written the poemthat you were planning on writing.

你計(jì)劃創(chuàng)作的詩(shī)歌早已被這個(gè)宇宙寫(xiě)好。

02:51

And this is why you can do nothing butpoint at the flock of starlings

這也是為什么你只能指著那群

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whose bodies rise and fall in inheritedchoreography,

在世代相傳的隊(duì)形中起起落落的椋鳥(niǎo)，

03:05

swarming the sky in a sweeping curtain

像是覆蓋天空的一幅巨大幕布，

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that, for one blistering moment,

就在那一瞬間，

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forms the unmistakeable shape

形成了耀眼的

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of a giant bird flapping against the sky.

大鳥(niǎo)形狀，展翅翱翔。

03:19

It is why your mouth forms an "o"

這就是為什么你們張大了嘴巴，

03:23

that is not a gasp,

這并不是驚嘆，

03:24

but rather, the beginning of, "Oh. Ofcourse."

相反，你們的第一反應(yīng)只是，“噢，當(dāng)然了?！?/p>

03:30

As in, of course the heart of a blue whaleis as large as a house

像是藍(lán)鯨跟房子一樣大的心臟，

03:36

with chambers tall enough to fit a personstanding.

里面足夠高，當(dāng)然能容納一個(gè)站立的人。

03:40

Of course a fig becomes possible

當(dāng)然，

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when a lady wasp lays her eggs inside aflower, dies and decomposes,

當(dāng)寄生蜂把卵產(chǎn)在花里，死去并分解后，

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the fruit, evidence of her transformation.

它就變成了果實(shí)。

03:55

Sometimes, the poem is so bright,

有時(shí)，詩(shī)歌是如此的明充滿(mǎn)智慧，

03:59

your silly language will not stick to it.

無(wú)法用膚淺的語(yǔ)言表達(dá)。

04:02

Sometimes, the poem is so true,

有時(shí)，詩(shī)歌是如此的真實(shí)，

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nobody will believe you.

甚至沒(méi)人會(huì)相信你。

04:08

I am a bird

我就是

04:11

made of birds.

由許多鳥(niǎo)組成的那只鳥(niǎo)。

04:13

This blue heart a house you can stand upinside of.

這個(gè)藍(lán)色的心臟就是能容下你的房子。

04:17

I am dying

我在這里，

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here

在這朵花里

04:21

inside this flower.

消逝。

04:26

It is OK.

沒(méi)關(guān)系，

04:27

It is what I was put here to do.

這就是我被派到這里的目的。

04:30

Take this fruit.

收下這個(gè)果實(shí)吧。

04:33

It is what I have to offer.

這是我所能給予的。

04:36

It may not be first,

這或許不是第一個(gè)，

04:38

or ever best,

也許不是最好的，

04:40

but it is the only way to be sure that Ilived at all.

但這是能證明我來(lái)過(guò)這個(gè)世界的唯一證據(jù)。

04:46

(Applause)

（掌聲）