"Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem……" — Anne Michaels

Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can… - Anne Michaels
"Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can 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 moves from language to life; both, like the immigrant, try to identify the invisible, what's between the lines, the mysterious implications."

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