Eliot Weinberger Quotes

• Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak.

  Eliot Weinberger

  Listening, Sometimes, Speak

  Eliot Weinberger (2000). “Anonymous Sources: A Talk on Translators and Translation : Lecture”

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• William Carlos Williams, late in his long life, had a dream: He saw an enormous spiral staircase in empty space, and his father slowly descending toward him. When he reached the bottom, his father walked over, looked him in the eye and said: “You know those poems you're writing? They're no good.”

  Eliot Weinberger

  Dream, Father, Writing

  Eliot Weinberger (2007). “An Elemental Thing”, p.115, New Directions Publishing

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