Nor ought a genius less than his that writ
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It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.
We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind--mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising
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I have nothing but wastes and wilds of self-translation before me for many miserable months to come.
Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information--hence, something inesse
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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
Now an allegory is but a translation of abstract notions into a picture-language, which is itself nothing but an abstraction from
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial si
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Poetry is what is lost in translation.
To translate, one must have a style of his own, for otherwise the translation will have no rhythm or nuance, which come from the p
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