Translating Poetry

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), Parerga and Paralipomena , Vol. II, Chapter 16, § 183 (tr. Adrian Del Caro and Christopher Janaway): All this might stem from the fact that poetry by nature is untranslatable. For in it thoughts and words are so intimately and firmly intertwined, like the uterine and foetal parts of the placenta, that we cannot substitute foreign words without affecting the…