In response to his critics, Lee quotes the poet Joseph Brodsky, a Russian Jew who lived in exile in the US. Brodsky wrote that poetry should criticize political authority until political authorities cease to interfere with poetry.
對此，他引用流亡美國的俄國猶太裔詩人布洛斯基所說：「詩應批判政治，直到政治停止干涉詩為止。」