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Quote by Andre Naffis-Sahely

“When it comes to the challenges of the actual process, I soldier on as best I can, on my own.”

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Andre Naffis-Sahely is a British poet born in 1985. His works blend various cultural elements and explore themes such as identity, memory, and travel. more

“Some of my colleagues are surprised by how little personal interaction I've had with "my" authors, but I don't translate to go fishing for friends. Part of me suspects that they wouldn't like me, or that I wouldn't like them, which would inevitably get in the way of the mission. None of the theory built around translation matters to me anyway: much of the process, I find, is intuitive.”

Way Littles Matter Process Theory Built Missions Like Me Fishing Suspects Interaction Translate Colleagues Intuitive Translations

Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely

“Regardless of whether the authors I've translated have been "dead and canonized," or "living and established," or even simply "emerging," I must put myself to the same, old test: "can I do their texts justice?" I've translated twenty-one books, and except for three commissions, I "hand-picked" all my authors on the basis of whether my own peculiar idiosyncrasies would complement their own.”

Has Beens Book Hands Three Justice My Own Tests Bases Twenties Peculiar Emerging Twenty One Complement Idiosyncrasies

Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely

“Most of us have been subjected to terrible political poetry at least once or twice in our lifetimes, and so we tend to shy away from it.”

Has Beens Political Terrible Lifetime Shy

Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely

“The average political poem - especially the kind that wears this label all too proudly - is both dull and full of brow-beating triteness.”

Kind Political Average Labels Dull Brows

Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely

“To be a political poet means simply to be a poet, and any poet worth their salt will be a political animal in their own peculiar way - they have no choice: politics is one of the many fragments we thread into the tapestry of the poem.”

Way Mean Political Choices Animal Poet Peculiar Salt Thread Fragments Tapestry Political Animals

Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely

“I do think we're on the edge of a terrifying world, and that many young people know that but don't know how to talk about it.”

People Thinking Knows World Young Know How Edges

Author:Tony Judt

“One cannot simply decide to write apolitical poetry, in the way one decides to drink lemonade instead of tea, it's far more subliminal than that.”

Way Writing Drink Tea Lemonade Subliminal Apolitical

Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely

“Whenever poetry and politics are mentioned in the same breath, we tend to miss the point entirely - as I often have - and we ask ourselves whether poetry and politics even belong together, because they're often so poorly married that we think of them as oil and water.”

Thinking Together Asks Water Missing Married Breaths Oil Oil And Water

Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely

“The real question should be: what makes a good political poem? The possible answers to that question are both obvious and yet still a little too subjective for anyone to ever fully agree on. What do I most wish to see in a political poet? Sublimated rebellion.”

Should Littles Stills Real Political Wish Answers Poet Agree Obvious Rebellion Subjective Real Questions Good Political

Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely

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