It should be the aspiration of the translator of poetry and of other types of text as well to choose the most appropriate expressions in the target language, compete with other translators,and strive to make his own version surpass those of others. One language, however, has no advantage over another; it has only its own genius. There is no rivalry between two languages, nor between the translation of a poem and the original in the excellence of the way of expressing the content of the...
