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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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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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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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A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate. – Donald Trump

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To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery –even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness –is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be. – Andre Breton

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The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives. – Mary Catherine Bateson

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A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination. – Ada Louise Huxtable

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