Famous quotes containing the words style and/or clock:
“To translate, one must have a style of his own, for otherwise the translation will have no rhythm or nuance, which come from the process of artistically thinking through and molding the sentences; they cannot be reconstituted by piecemeal imitation. The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of ones own style and creatively adjust this to ones author.”
—Paul Goodman (19111972)
“He makes his voyage too late, perhaps, by a true water clock who delays too long.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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