A CIVILIZATION WITHOUT POETRY IS A DYING TREE

Xi Jinping Explains the Stakes

🖋️ Make America Poetic Again — Poetry fights back.

Speech

China has understood poetry
for over three thousand years.

The bamboo writes it when it bends.
The river recites it to the stones.

If a nation cuts its metaphors,
it cuts its roots.

When the United States bans poetry,
its leaves will fall out of season.
Its forests of thought will wither.

Poetry is not entertainment.
It is memory.
It is culture.
It is continuity.

A single verse
can carry a dynasty.

Let America choose:
to bloom… or to crumble into prose.