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Translating Poetry Quotes

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn’t that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I’d already been translating French poetry, I’d been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went Picture Quote #1

When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what’s going on in the plot, I go back and I read Pablo Neruda’s poetry. I don’t actually speak Spanish, so I read it translation. But I always go back to Neruda. I don’t know why, but it calms me, calms my brain Picture Quote #1

Rational intelligence is dangerous and leads to ratiocination. The painter is a medium who doesn’t realize what he is doing. No translation can express the mystery of sensibility, a word, still unreliable, which is nevertheless the basis of painting or poetry, like a kind of alchemy Picture Quote #1

The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet’s perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music Picture Quote #1

Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later Picture Quote #1

I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation Picture Quote #1

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I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table Picture Quote #1

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence Picture Quote #1

Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice Picture Quote #1

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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn’t that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I’d already been translating French poetry, I’d been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went (Translating Poetry Quotes) When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what’s going on in the plot, I go back and I read Pablo Neruda’s poetry. I don’t actually speak Spanish, so I read it translation. But I always go back to Neruda. I don’t know why, but it calms me, calms my brain (Translating Poetry Quotes) Rational intelligence is dangerous and leads to ratiocination. The painter is a medium who doesn’t realize what he is doing. No translation can express the mystery of sensibility, a word, still unreliable, which is nevertheless the basis of painting or poetry, like a kind of alchemy. (Translating Poetry Quotes) The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet’s perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music. (Translating Poetry Quotes) Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later (Translating Poetry Quotes) I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation (Translating Poetry Quotes) I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table (Translating Poetry Quotes) When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence (Translating Poetry Quotes) Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice (Translating Poetry Quotes)