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/ page 879 of 1205 /In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, now, how would this go for him? Would this do or not?
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What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.
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Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something seems unusually piercing, living, handsome, in another language, and since English is yours, you wish it to be there too.
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In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary.
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Well, maybe so, although I don't think I am particularly gifted in languages. In fact, oddly enough, it may have something to do with my being slow at languages.
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The coward's weapon, poison.
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Love's tongue is in his eyes.
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Drink today, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do tomorrow.
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Our acts our angels are, for good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
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Deed, not words shall speak me.
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That Dick Cheney is pro-torture surprises no one; he freely admits it.
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I became an electrician after high school. But I always had this thing in me to write. But it was always a little shameful. To say you were a poet was saying you were kind of crazy, and I carried that around for a long time. I still kind of carry that. And I think it might be true, actually.
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If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life.
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On a good day I write, all day.
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That soldiers do terrible things during wartime should not surprise us.
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When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family.
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Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do.
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Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of it.
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You come to realize people are not simple.
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In life you get one take, and it's perfect. It's strange, afterwards you might think I shouldn't have reacted that way, but that's the way you reacted. That's your take; that's all you get.
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