Is There Any Purpose To Translating Poetry?

My Belief, For What It Is Worth, Is That City Dwellers Cannot Understand The World. Insulated From Reality By Complex And Expert Systems Of Provision And Police, Baffled By Fashion And Spectacle, City Dwellers Can Distinguish Neither The Sources Of Their Existence Nor The Consequences.

If Good History Is Dispassionate History, It Must Naturally Wait Until The Passions Of The Period Subside.

Economists, Like Royal Children, Are Not Punished For Their Errors.

The Truth Is, Of Course, That History Is Not Completed In Modern Commerce Any More Than Philosophy Is Perfected In Political Economy. In Other Words, There Is Nothing Timeless Or God-given About Filling Stations And Penicillin And Plastic Bags.

Soaring Prices For Crude Oil, Falling Production Surpluses, Wild Speculation In Commodities, A Rush Into The Precious Metals, Turmoil In The Middle East, Assertive Oil Producers: It Is 1973-74 All Over Again, And At Dictation Speed.