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5. “That the speech of self-disclosure should be translatable seems to me very odd, but I am convinced that it is. The conclusion that I draw is that the only quality which all human being without exception possess is uniqueness: any characteristic, on the other hand, which one individual can be recognized as having in common with another, like red hair or the English language, implies the existence of other individual qualities which this classification excludes.”
W.H. Auden
Uniqueness, Translation, Self-disclosure, Human Nature, Individuality
8. “In preferring the Baudelaire translations of Poe to the original – and they give the impression of being original works – Stedman agreed with Asselineau that the French is more concise than the English.” Charles Baudelaire Baudelaire Poe, Translation Poetry, Poetic Preference, Translation, Poetry
9. “I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can’t be satisfied with the colossal job of merely living. Oh, no, I must order life in sonnets and sestinas and provide a verbal reflector for my 60-watt lighted head.” Sylvia Plath Creative Excellence, Life Translation, Literary Passion, Excellence, Passion, Translation
10. “You’ve often heard me say – perhaps too often – that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. That little poem means just what it says and it says what it means, nothing less but nothing more.” Robert Frost Poetry’s Essence, Translation Loss, Clear Meaning, Poetry, Translation, Meaning
11. “He was born in Bercy on the outskirts of Paris and trained in France, and while he knows a little Poodle-English, he responds quickly only to commands in French. Otherwise he has to translate, and that slows him down.” John Steinbeck Language, Translation, Culture, Identity, Communication, France
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5. “That the speech of self-disclosure should be translatable seems to me very odd, but I am convinced that it is. The conclusion that I draw is that the only quality which all human being without exception possess is uniqueness: any characteristic, on the other hand, which one individual can be recognized as having in common with another, like red hair or the English language, implies the existence of other individual qualities which this classification excludes.”
W.H. Auden Uniqueness, Translation, Self-disclosure, Human Nature, Individuality
8. “In preferring the Baudelaire translations of Poe to the original – and they give the impression of being original works – Stedman agreed with Asselineau that the French is more concise than the English.”
Charles Baudelaire Baudelaire Poe, Translation Poetry, Poetic Preference, Translation, Poetry
9. “I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can’t be satisfied with the colossal job of merely living. Oh, no, I must order life in sonnets and sestinas and provide a verbal reflector for my 60-watt lighted head.”
Sylvia Plath Creative Excellence, Life Translation, Literary Passion, Excellence, Passion, Translation
10. “You’ve often heard me say – perhaps too often – that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. That little poem means just what it says and it says what it means, nothing less but nothing more.”
Robert Frost Poetry’s Essence, Translation Loss, Clear Meaning, Poetry, Translation, Meaning
11. “He was born in Bercy on the outskirts of Paris and trained in France, and while he knows a little Poodle-English, he responds quickly only to commands in French. Otherwise he has to translate, and that slows him down.”
John Steinbeck Language, Translation, Culture, Identity, Communication, France
