William Carlos Williams: Letter to Nicholas Calas, 4 Dec. 1940
All this fits well into my scheme. I don’t care how I say what I must say. If I do original work all well and good. But if I can say it (the matter of form I mean) by translating the work of others that also is valuable. What difference does it make?
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Cited by Jonathan Cohen in “Into the American Idiom: William Carlos Williams’ Translation of Jorge Carrera Andrade’s “Dictado por el agua”