Top 2 Quotes & Sayings by Eliot Weinberger

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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Eliot Weinberger

Eliot Weinberger is a contemporary American writer, essayist, editor, and translator. He is primarily known for his literary writings (essays) and political articles, the former characterized by their wide-ranging subjects and experimental style, verging on a kind of documentary prose poetry, and the latter highly critical of American politics and foreign policy. His work regularly appears in translation and has been published in more than thirty languages.

William Carlos Williams, late in his long life, had a dream: He saw an enormous spiral staircase in empty space, and his father slowly descending toward him. When he reached the bottom, his father walked over, looked him in the eye and said: “You know those poems you're writing? They're no good.”
Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak. — © Eliot Weinberger
Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak.
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