Michael Hamburger (1924–2007) British translator, poet, critic, memoirist and academic
Interview with Lidia Vianu http://lidiavianu.scriptmania.com/Michael%20Hamburger.htm
“When I sit near the ocean in the morning and write my verses and breathe the salty wind which is coming from the water, I rejoice in God and I am blissful, as I was as a child.”
Wenn ich morgens am Meere sitze und Verse dichte und atme dabei den salzigen Wind, der vom Wasser herüberspringt, dann gehe ich auf in Gott und bin glücklich, wie ich es nur noch in der Kinderzeit war.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)
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at the diner on the corner
I am waiting at the counter
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and he fills it only halfway
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