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Michel Roland-Guill
  • Lo ben che fa contenta questa corte,  Alfa e O è di quanta scrittura  mi legge Amore o lievemente o forte.”
  • Da più autori comunque Dante poteva raccogliere l'idea del viaggio oceanico dell'eroe, sempre data come ipotetica e favolosa. Plinio e Solino raccontavano di una sua fine nell'Atlantico, dove si era spinto, e aveva fondato Lisbona. Servio accenna a questa ipotesi, fra le tre che si facevano sulla fine di Ulisse («quamquam fingatur in extrema Oceani parte Ulixes fuisse»: ad Aen. VI 107). Lo stesso Seneca (Ep. 88, 7) si fa eco di tali supposizioni: «utrum inter Italiam et Siciliam iactatus sit, an extra notum nobis orbem».

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Michel Roland-Guill
  • I resolved that at 30 I would know more about poetry than any man living, that I would know what was accounted poetry everywhere, what part of poetry was "indestructible," what part could not be lost by translation and—scarcely less important—what effects were obtainable in one language only and were utterly incapable of being translated.

     

    In this search I learned more or less of nine foreign languages, I read Oriental stuff in translations, I fought every University regulation and every professor who tried to make me learn anything except this, or who bothered me with "requirements for degrees."[8

  • He realized with his translation work that the problem lay not in his knowledge of the other languages, but in his use of English:

     
     

    What obfuscated me was not the Italian but the crust of dead English, the sediment present in my own available vocabulary ... You can't go round this sort of thing. It takes six or eight years to get educated in one's art, and another ten to get rid of that education.

     

    Neither can anyone learn English, one can only learn a series of Englishes. Rossetti made his own language. I hadn't in 1910 made a language, I don't mean a language to use, but even a language to think in.[25]

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