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“I will venture to assert, that a just translation of any ancient poet in rhyme is impossible. No human ingenuity can be equal to the task of closing every couplet with sounds homotonous, expressing at the same time the full sense, and only the full sense of his original.”

Humans Sound Impossible Poet Equal Tasks Originals Ancient Venture Rhyme Translations Closing Ingenuity Couplets

Book:The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence

Source: The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence

“It's impossible in our postmodern era for anyone to be original - for anybody to do what Jackson Pollock did.”

Impossible Originals Eras Modernism Postmodern Pollock

Author:Irving Sandler

“What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though it staresus in the face. The way it usually is with people, it is a thing's name that makes it perceptible to them in the first place.--For the most part, the original ones have also been the name-givers.”

People Way Firsts Faces Names Impossible Originals Originality Giver

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Since a given system can never of its own accord go over into another equally probable state but into a more probable one, it is likewise impossible to construct a system of bodies that after traversing various states returns periodically to its original state, that is a perpetual motion machine.”

States Body Given Impossible Return Machines Originals Various Perpetual Constructs Accord Entropy Perpetual Motion

Author:Ludwig Boltzmann

“That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.”

Men Christianity Psychology Impossible Modern Originals Missions Significance Fulfilled Modern Man

Book:Stories and Biographies from Iqbal

Source: Stories and Biographies from Iqbal

“Virgil Donati is clearly the best drummer to come along in the music scene in quite some time. He is extremely unique and has embraced an original sound that has given him a signature that is unmistakable and impossible to duplicate.”

Given Sound Impossible Scene Unique Originals Drummer Signatures Duplicate

Author:Tony MacAlpine

“To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.”

Thinking Should Littles Impossible Originals

Author:Lord Byron

“every being is unique.god neva creates carbon copies,he alys creates originals.he is truly a creator.he neva repeats.but man goes on living in imitation.we are tryin to be somedody else which is impossible.”

Men Impossible Goes On Unique Originals Creator Repeats Copies Imitation Carbon

Author:Rajneesh