"It seems more than likely that the translating of poetry is going to rub off on the translator if he or she is a poet."

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Ron Padgett

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“I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera.”
“My short stories are so character-based and they're also so private. They're like a private world in each story and I'm getting more and more interested in allowing myself to investigate the big picture about this country, and about human beings, and about the planet, and about the solar system, and about the nature of the material world in general. And I felt like I needed to move into a bigger form.”
“When I look back at the world championships, I know there's a lot of room for improvement, I'm always up for a challenge. The Olympics, they don't define me, I've had some good and some bad. But it's all about the Olympic experience.”
“Maybe rock 'n' roll isn't music. Maybe people just need to be reminded that the world ain't the way they think it is.”

Source : "Stone me!". Interview with Jon Savage, www.theguardian.com. August 9, 2008.
“You probably shouldn't laugh any more.”
“So let's not get frightened when the children read fantasy. It's the compost for a healthy mind. It stimulate s the inquisitive nodes, and there is some evidence that a rich internal fantasy life is as good and necessary for a child as healthy soil is for a plant, for much the same reasons.”
“I am comfortable calling myself a writer of suspense, or a writer of thrillers; both terms are sort of interchangeable to me. I think that came from a sense of being at conflict with my true nature throughout my youth, and being afraid of discovery, and feeling as if I didn't belong.”
“The zenith of virtuosity, a violinist like Jascha Heifetz, the supernatural in a pianist like Vladimir Horowitz, these are performers who were so idiosyncratic and personal that to imitate them would be like filling somebody else's bottle with your wine.”

Source : Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. July 11, 2012.

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