Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak. — Eliot Weinberger Copy Share Image
Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak. — Eliot Weinberger Copy Share Image
“He invited the Indian scholar Paramartha to come and set up a Translation Bureau for Buddhist texts, and the scholar stayed for twenty-three years.… — Eliot Weinberger Copy Share Image
“What is WIND and what is BONE have never been conclusively determined by the generations of Chinese critics, but what is certain, according to… — Eliot Weinberger Copy Share Image
“In this world, progress is for our descendants alone. They will have more of a chance than we did. All the beautiful things ever… — Eliot Weinberger Copy Share Image
“Hear the wind and you will know the wind. Wind blows, and the generations are its leaves. There was no higher praise than what… — Eliot Weinberger Copy Share Image
William Carlos Williams, late in his long life, had a dream: He saw an enormous spiral staircase in empty space, and his father slowly… — Eliot Weinberger Copy Share Image
