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Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak.

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Poetry is that which is worth translating. The poem dies when it has no place to go.

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William Carlos Williams, late in his long life, had a dream: He saw an enormous spiral staircase in empty space, and his father slowly descending toward him. When he reached the bottom, his father walked over, looked him in the eye and said: You know those poems you're writing? They're no good.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Eliot Weinberger

Eliot Weinberger

Born: February 6, 1949 (age 76)
Bio: Eliot Weinberger is a contemporary American writer, essayist, editor, and translator. His work regularly appears in translation and has been published in more than thirty languages.
Known for:
  1. An Elemental Thing (2007)
  2. Karmic traces, 1993-1999 (2000)
  3. What I heard about Iraq (2005)
  4. Nineteen ways of looking at Wang Wei (1987)
  5. Oranges & Peanuts for Sale (2009)

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