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  Posted by Luna Marie Sat Sep 12, 2009 11:51am PDT

  Dear Sassa,

  You speak English well. You speak good English. Don't worry and good luck! ... my best, Luna

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  Posted by PoetWithCancer Sat Sep 12, 2009 12:27pm PDT

  Dear Sassa,

  I wish you good luck.

  I find your English very understandable and full of charm.

  You have understood and appreciated the spirit of language, which is poetry. It is the same spirit in any language.

  I have read and heard often a saying that "Poetry is what you lose in translation." I disagree with that saying.

  That saying makes the mistake of identifying poetry as a particular verse or form. It is difficult to translate trying to keep the same or similar verse or form, while also trying to keep the same meanings and the same spirit.

  How could it be otherwise? Two words that rhyme in one language will not rhyme in another. The same word will have a diffent number of syllables in two different languages, and a different accentuation, and an entirely different pronunciation. This is all part of the body that helps to make any language.

  So it is the body, not the spirit of language that makes translation difficult.

  If the translator insists on keeping the same or similar body, then he or she may lose some or all of the spirit that is the poetry.

  But translate fiirst the spirit faithfully, and simply approximate the body as closes as can be done while keeping true to the spirit, and then the truth is this--which is my own saying: "Poetry is the easiest language to translate, because it is the heart of humankind speaking to the heart of humankind; and it is always the same heart and the same spirit of laguage, regardless of how different the various linguistic emobdiments of that spirit may be."

  I wish you well on your exam. But you are being tested for your knowledge of the lingusitic body of English. I hope that you can keep taking the test again and again, until you succeed. But do not feel too badly if you do not pass, for you have learned somethimg musch more important about English.

  You have learned to see and feel the spirit of English, which is its poetry. This capacity is what made Joseph Conrad a great writer in English, although his native language was Polish.

  You have learned that poetic spirit which is the heart and soul of all languages. Poetry is the magic of language, that enables words to reflect and contain, and give back again, the magic of both physical and mental reality, of life, and the world.

  Good luck again, Sassa. But know this, that regardless of tomorrow, you have already succeeded in achieving an understanding of that which is the best and the brightest, and the most enduring and endearing, the most meaningful, and the most human of all the laguages that are, that have been, or that will ever be: Poetry.

  Your friend from across so many miles,

  --PWC

  aka Mr. Poet

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  Posted by PoetWithCancer Sat Sep 12, 2009 5:10pm PDT

  Dear Sassa,

  I just revised my poem "Nothing Special" by stream-lining some of the sentences, and also by adding a few more. If you wish to copy it for yourself and other lovers of poetry, it will now have a better appearance, and I hope also, a better sound, and a better and fuller meaning.

  Sincerely,

  --PWC

  aka Mr. Poet

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  Posted by Sassa Sun Sep 13, 2009 7:52am PDT

  Dear Mr. Poet,

  Many many thanks and I'm really really moved.

  Thank you, Poet!

  Sassa

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  Posted by Sassa Sun Sep 13, 2009 7:56am PDT

  Dear Luna,

  Really thanks for your encouragement and your best wish.

  I've already tried my best in my test, and I'm praying for the result.

  Again thanks a lot!

  Sassa

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  Posted by PoetWithCancer Sun Sep 13, 2009 10:13pm PDT

  Dear Sassa,

  Luna Marie, among my many friends on Shine, is my very special friend. I am glad to see that she likes you!

  Again, I hope that you did well with your test. You should certainly go on to live the grand life of the mind and of the spirit and heart. You will do so, I am confident, regardless of all impediments that may hamper you. You will succeed in life, to the fullest of what true life is all about, in our little bright brevity of living time.

  Bye now.

  --PWC

  aka Mr. Poet

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