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The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one lang

The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it. – Robert Fitzgerald

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The test of a given phrase would be: Is it worthy to be immortal? To make a beeline for something. Thats worthy of being immortal and is immortal in English idiom. I guess Ill split is not going to be immortal and is excludable, therefore excluded. – Robert Fitzgerald

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There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just dont know. – Robert Fitzgerald

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Doing White Collar, quite often my character goes undercover, so therein lies the compounding of the imagination. I get to play Peter Burke and then someone else when Peter Burke goes undercover. – Tim DeKay

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The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope. – Henry Ward Beecher

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The conscious process is reflected in the imagination the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling. – William Irwin Thompson

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It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that theres not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination. – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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