<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=452029" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Dance And Sing</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It irks me terribly when someone upsets the natural rhythm <br>of my sentences when I write a translation, it is a given that <br>one should say ‘aesthetically pleasing’ as the rhythm is just <br>right; then grammar-conscious pedantic translators change <br>it to ‘pleasing aesthetically’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their insistence on messing up the rhythm so the tongue <br>falters as lines run on drives me wild with frustration, then <br>they insist I should reread the unmusical text lacking all <br>beauty as jargon and grammar rules preclude all use of <br>galloping rhythm and metre</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It feels like they are plunging a knife in my heart when they <br>destroy the music in words and lines; no need for rhymes <br>which are infantile, my only dream is speed - cascading <br>breathlessly until reaching a marvellous end, an <br>unexpected conclusion </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why do we have to live life in an assembly line of dead <br>words without the sound of music filling the ears; I accept <br>being Not Fully Functional if meeting that requirement <br>means dying inside – I am still too passionate, words <br>always dance and sing in my heart!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Margaret+Alice+Second">Margaret Alice Second</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=452029" data-title="Dance And Sing de Margaret Alice Second" data-description="It irks me terribly when someone upsets the natural rhythm of my sentences when I write a translation, it is a given that one should say ‘aesthetically pleasing’ as the rhythm is just right; then grammar-conscious pedantic translators chang..."></div> </div> </div>

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