Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0014442, Thu, 21 Dec 2006 11:13:25 -0500

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Translating parrots seriously
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From Jane Hirshfield's "After Long Silence" ("After," Bloodaxe Books):

The untranslatable thought must be the most precise.
Yet words are not the end of thought, they are where it begins.

Stan Kelly-Bootle

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