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I translated a part of this poem using it in my poem, quoting the line 10 differently. With all my love & adoration to Nabokov, his Pushkin's, translation of '" Eugene Onegin" was rather dry. Here we go, please check the very last line: The grand poet, Tyutchev, of Russian breed Stunned the world by quoting his own line: " The truth once spoken turns into a lie." Does it apply to those who write and read? I try my own injustice if it's high.

This is so beautiful I can't even analyse it, it locks up my logic, wraps it up, and demands my attention only to the words and their sound running round inside my head. My hats off to the translator, a translator can make or ruin a poem, and I can't imagine changing one word of this one.

That's a translation by Vladimir Nabokov :) Amazing, I can't agree more :)

My compliments to whoever translated this poem. There is a quasi-religious feeling emanating from it reminiscent of and akin to the Christian poetry of George Herbert and Gerard Manley Hopkins. It reads like the kind of thing you could buy as an item of calligraphy in a church or cathedral bookshop on a par with 'Footsteps' or 'Go Placidly'. Very good indeed. Well done both original author and his translator whoever he or she happened to be.