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It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and odor, as seek to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet. The plant must spring again from its seed, or it will bear no flower -- and this is the burthen of the curse of Babel.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Percy Bysshe Shelley |

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Franz Kafka |

No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.

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I drank from the well called poetry until it sucked me dry. Sound my bones in Babel ruin.

Go to Quote / Comment | Robert Warlov |