The history that you have read is very rarely what actually happened. There was a famous saying that I remember, "a translation of a poem is like a woman: if s

The history that you have read is very rarely what actually happened. There was a famous saying that I remember, "a translation of a poem is like a woman: if she is pretty, she is not faithful, and if she is faithful, she is not pretty." A thousand pardons for the inherent misogyny; it is not intentional. ...and I thought it was John Ciardi. https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/yevgeny_yevtushenko_391310 https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/yevgeny_yevtushenko_39131...