W. H. Auden quote: To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad ...

To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally.

~ W. H. Auden ~

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