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A poem translated literally from Hebrew into the prose of an other language, whilst the same form of the sentences remain, will still retain, even as far as it relates to versification , much of its dignity, and a fair appearance of versification - Robert Lowth  
   
 

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Robert Lowth , From Lectures on the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews-1778 .Chair of Poetry at Oxford ( 1742 ).

 
 
 
   
 
 
 

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The origin of philosophy is translation or the thesis of translatability - Jacques Derrida  
   
 

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Jacques Derrida, The originator and namer of Deconstruction .French contemporary thinker. Author of Of Grammatology, Writing and Difference and Speech and Phenomena.

 
 

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