“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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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.
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them.
I'm interested in having a relationship with the world that's not my own.
