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Bring over a poem's ideas and images, and you will lose its manner; imitate prosodic effects, and you sacrifice its matter. Get the letter and you miss the spirit, which is everything in poetry; or get the spirit and you miss the letter, which is everything in poetry. But these are false dilemmas…Verse translation at its best generates a wholly new utterance in the second language.
—John Felstiner
Thursday, March 26, 2020

The false

The false can enrich, but never replace, the true.

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