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In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary.
What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.
Yes, living voices in a living language, so it seemed to us.
Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself... →
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... →
Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem is to bring a work of art in... →
That helped me to keep in touch with myself and to keep in touch with this really quite extraordinary language and literature into which I had pushed... →
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... →
Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I... →
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... →
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