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Dead poet's society

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From: Jerusalem Post
Date: 20050513
Author:JANICE REBIBO

JANICE REBIBO
Jerusalem Post
05-13-2005
Headline: Dead poet's society
Byline: JANICE REBIBO
Edition; Up Front
Section: Books
Page: 24

Friday, May 13, 2005 -- About the futility of translation, Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote that you might as well toss a violet into a crucible to see what it's made of as try to transfuse the creations of a poet from one language into another. After my own experience translating Natan Yonatan's Hebrew poems into American English, I would add to Shelley's conclusion: "The plant must spring again from its seed or it will bear no flower."

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