Subject: Re: Sergeant Rilko
From: citycabn (citycabn@gateway.net)
Date: Fri Mar 03 2000 - 17:07:44 EST
". . . to the poet belongs the privilege and inevitable disadvantage that
his work cannot be translated either into prose or into a foreign language.
A true poet is strictly untranslatable."
--Paul Valery
When reading poems in translation, I usually feel as though I am looking at
a tapestry from _behind_. But I am grateful to those translators who
provide even this perspective.
A good weekend to all,
Bruce
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