Translated Poetry

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“God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.”
—John Donne (c. 1572–1631)

“No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)