After leaving college and while working on a newspaper and then on a magazine in New York, I wanted not to lose what Greek I had acquired.
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There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.
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Of course anything can happen, and as we know there are a great many examples of the other way of doing it, but I myself don't think I would enjoy it.
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The heart of the matter seems to me to be the direct interaction between one's making a poem in English and a poem in the language that one understands and values. I don't see how you can do it otherwise.
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The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it.
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