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• One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.

  Anita Diamant
  American author (1951 - )
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• There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.

  Edith Hamilton
  American educator and author (1867 - 1963)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• incommunicable
• inquisitive
• something
• surpassed
• libraries
• worked

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