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Proper Names Are Poetry In The Raw. Like All Poetry They Are Untranslatable.
-W. H. Auden
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Proper Names Are Poetry In The Raw.
W. H. Auden
Proper Names Are Poetry In The Raw. Like All Poetry They Are Untranslatable.
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