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

— Michael Hamburger

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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.

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