Quote by James Buchan
Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contai

Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice. – James Buchan

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Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion. – James Buchan

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Business
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Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing. – James Buchan

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History
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Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think theyre fine fellows and dont need to explain themselves. – James Buchan

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One cant write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who dont like poetry. – Nathalie Sarraute

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Poetry

Im not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on Paradise Lost to translate it. – Callan McAuliffe

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Poetry

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it. – Robert Penn Warren

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Poetry

A lot of people think, Ill give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesnt work out Ill go get a law degree, do something else thats more practical. For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan. – Brit Marling

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Poetry

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