When Translating One Must Proceed

Love Grants In A Moment What Toil Can Hardly Achieve In An Age. [ger., In Einem Augenblick Gewahrt Die Liebe Was Muhe Kaum In Langer Zeit Erreicht.]

The World Remains Ever The Same.

One Criticizes The English For Carrying Their Teapots Wherever They Go, Even Lugging Them Up Mount Etna. But Doesn't Every Nationhave Its Teapot, In Which, Even When Traveling, It Brews The Dried Bundles Of Herbs Brought From Home?

When Translating One Must Proceed Up To The Intranslatable; Only Then One Becomes Aware Of The Foreign Nation And The Foreign Tongue.

To Be Sure, We Have Inherited Abilities, But Our Development We Owe To Thousands Of Influences Coming From The World Around Us From Which We Appropriate What We Can And What Is Suitable To Us.