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"By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow."
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"I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me."
"There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know."
"I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places."
"Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems."
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"With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes."
"My own position is, that it is largely up to the work itself to suggest the nature of these referential points without dimensions in and through the processes by which the distance between them is maintained."
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"Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other members of its stylistic 'family' in the world outside."
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"Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply."
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