As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always — William H. Gass, Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation
As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always — William H. Gass, Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation
As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always — William H. Gass, Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation
As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always — William H. Gass, Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation
As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always — William H. Gass, Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation
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As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready to enlarge their store.

— William H. Gass, Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation
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