“A woman of taste, Eve chose to pick wisdom, and with her courage for the unknown, translated eternity into time, her word into memory, her entire self into the eternally ticking earth.
Eve has given the world her gift of translation. A translator steals and gives.
Eve is the mother of translation. She transformed fruit into knowledge, secret sperm into children, and the text of her story into us.”
—Willis Barnstone, The Poetics of Translation

















