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Michael Hamburger Quotes

d. 2007 England

Michael Hamburger (22 March 1924 – 7 June 2007) was a German-born British translator and poet. He came to Britain in 1933 as a refugee from Nazism.

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It is impossible for a poet to characterize his own work. From other people I gather that I am a gloomy poet, if not a tragic one.

Being pre-eminently a moralist, he needed a medium that enabled him to illustrate a moral insight as briefly and vividly as possible. Being an artist and sensualist, he needed a medium that was epigrammatic or aphoristic, but allowed him scope for fantasy and for that element of suggestiveness which he considered essential to beauty.

Translation came naturally to me because as a child I was translated from Germany to Britain.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Michael Hamburger (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.