{"id":9771,"date":"2017-08-31T07:36:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T07:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musik.a-z-translation.com\/quote-of-week\/"},"modified":"2020-01-03T11:37:55","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T11:37:55","slug":"quote-of-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/en\/quote-of-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">&#8220;Reading a poem in<br \/>\ntranslation,&#8221; wrote Bialek, &#8220;is like kissing a woman through a veil&#8221;; [&#8230;] Translation is a kind of transubstantiation;<br \/>\n one poem becomes another. You choose your philosophy of translation<br \/>\njust as you choose how to live: the free adaptation that sacrifices<br \/>\ndetail to meaning, the strict crib that sacrifices meaning to<br \/>\nexactitude. The poet moves from life to language, the translator moves<br \/>\nfrom language to life; both like the immigrant, try to identify the<br \/>\ninvisible, what&#8217;s between the lines, the mysterious implications.\u201d<br \/>\n  <\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">  <span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u2015<br \/>\n    <a class=\"authorOrTitle\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/9800.Anne_Michaels\">Anne Michaels<\/a>,<br \/>\n    <\/span><span id=\"quote_book_link_15836\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n      <a class=\"authorOrTitle\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/work\/quotes\/253710\">Fugitive Pieces<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n    <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Reading a poem in translation,&#8221; wrote Bialek, &#8220;is like kissing a woman through a veil&#8221;; [&#8230;] 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. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[90,372,373],"class_list":["post-9771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unkategorisiert","tag-english","tag-quote-of-the-week","tag-translations","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10956,"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9771\/revisions\/10956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.a-z-translations.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}