Quote by Marilyn Hacker
When you translate poetry in particular, youre obliged to look at

When you translate poetry in particular, youre obliged to look at how the writer with whom youre working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence. – Marilyn Hacker

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Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that Ive found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other. – Marilyn Hacker

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Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative. – Marilyn Hacker

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And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there… Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will. – Ezra Pound

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Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. – T. S. Eliot

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I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality. – Azar Nafisi

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Prose talks and poetry sings. – Franz Grillparzer

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