<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=540352" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>And We Shall Not Get Excited</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">And we shall not get excited. Because a translator<br>May not get excited. Calmly, we shall pass on<br>Words from man to son, from one tongue<br>To others' lips, un-<br>Knowingly, like a father who passes on<br>The features of his dead father's face<br>To his son, and he himself is like neither of them. Merely a mediator.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>We shall remember the things we held in our hands<br>That slipped out.<br>What I have in my possesion and what I do not have in my possession.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We must not get excited.<br>Calls and their callers drowned. Or, my beloved<br>Gave me a few words before she left,<br>To bring up for her.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And no more shall we tell what we were told<br>To other tellers. Silence as admission. We must not<br>Get excited.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Translated from the Hebrew by Barbara and Benjamin Harshav</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Yehuda+Amichai">Yehuda Amichai</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=540352" data-title="And We Shall Not Get Excited de Yehuda Amichai" data-description="And we shall not get excited. Because a translator May not get excited. Calmly, we shall pass on Words from man to son, from one tongue To others' lips, un- Knowingly, like a father who passes on The features of his dead father's face To his son, ..."></div> </div> </div>

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