When you translate poetry in particular you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words sentences phrases the triple tension between the line of verse the syntax and the sentence.
As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention...
I write poetry in order to live more fully.
Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.
