Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak. Eliot Weinberger More Quotes by Eliot Weinberger More Quotes From Eliot Weinberger 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.” Eliot Weinberger dreamwritingfather
