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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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Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required. – James Buchan

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If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside. – James Buchan

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Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes. – James Buchan

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I dont like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were. – Anne Stevenson

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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours. – Lascelles Abercrombie

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Poetry

I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldnt agree with Bly that its a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well, and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention. – James Laughlin

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Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early. – Rita Dove

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Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit. – Napolean Hill

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We created the Cabinet Committee on the Environment to review the environmental implications of all government initiatives. I think what made us successful was the fact that it was a sustained approach. We did something new every year. – Brian Mulroney

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A hug is worth a thousand words. – Author Unknown

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