[New-Poetry] O(wners) E(ventually) D(rown)

[Anny Ballardini]

Yes, Porchia gets it right. That is why literary translations will never be successful with a software. How Romantic is Murray.
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  I like that one a lot.
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    James Murray (OED editor) said he faced “the terrible undertow of words.”

     

    What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same and what they say is never the same.

    —Antonio Porchia, from “Voices,” translated by W. S. Merwin



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