That quality that makes something poetic is rooted in the nature of the language in which it is expressed. The less of it a poem has, the easier it is to detach the text from that language and express it in another, in a reasonable approximation of its original quality.
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Date: 9 February 2011 02:39 pm (UTC)Or something like that.
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