Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how … - Eliot Weinberger

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One of my favorite writers is Michel de Montaigne. My wife gave me a beautiful 17th-century edition of Montaigne's essays translated by John Florio. That's probably my most precious possession.

Eliot Weinberger

Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak.

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William Carlos Williams, late in his long life, had a dream: He saw an enormous spiral staircase in empty space, and his father slowly descending toward him. When he reached the bottom, his father walked over, looked him in the eye and said: “You know those poems you're writing? They're no good. ”

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