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Translation
The process of converting text from one language to another. Translation of literary works can be highly challenging and is considered a literary pursuit in its own right.
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Reading a poem in translation," wrote Bialek, "is like kissing a woman through a veil"; and reading Greek poems, with a mixture of katharevousa and the demotic, is like kissing two women. Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how to live: the free adaptation that sacrifices detail to meaning, the strict crib that sacrifices meaning to exactitude. The poet moves from life to language, the translator move
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― Fugitive Pieces
― Fugitive Pieces
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