Quote of the week
"Reading a poem in translation," wrote Bialek, "is like kissing a woman through a veil"; [...] Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You choose your philosophy…
"Reading a poem in translation," wrote Bialek, "is like kissing a woman through a veil"; [...] Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You choose your philosophy…
Happy Easter, everyone! I hope y'all get to relax and enjoy the holidays. (Here in Germany, we have four days in total! Yeah, us!) Here's a wonderful quote on translation…
“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind” — R. Kipling
Die Sprache ist die Haut der Seele. Language is the soul's skin.