The Translation of a Text Already Within Us

Anna Kamienska, “In that Great River: A Notebook,” Poetry Foundation

I like Simone Weil’s idea that writing is actually the translation of a text we already carry within us.

[See Dylan Nice (via Gary Lutz)’s idea of “a text beyond the writer to which the writer submits”.]

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