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Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / Boileau - Art potique | | French term or phrase: Vingt fois sur le métier, remettez votre ouvrage | est-ce que quelqu'un connaît la traduction officielle de ce texte de Boileau? (je suppose qu'elle existe)
ça dit :
Vingt fois sur le métier, remettez votre ouvrage
Polissez-le sans cesse, et le repolissez
Ajoutez et souvent effacez |
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| | Put your work twenty times upon the anvil | Explanation:
Hasten slowly, and without losing heart, put your work twenty times upon the anvil.
[Fr., Hatez-vous lentement; et, sans perdre courage,
Vingt fois sur le metier remettez votre ouvrage.]
- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, L'art Poetique (l. 171)
I found this on usa.giga.com. This may well be the 'official translation'
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Note added at 47 mins (2005-09-05 14:07:19 GMT)
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Also to be found on http://www.worldofquotes.com/author/Nicolas-Boileau~Despreau... |
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anna purna
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| Grading comment it is indeed what the Docteur ordered, but this Anna got there first, so she gets the marks (rules of the games) great source both Anna and Philip - and thanks to all - this will be the title of something I'm planning/writing for Proz Knowledgebase
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38 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +1 | Vingt fois sur le métier, remettez votre ouvrage If at first you don't succeed, try, try again
Explanation:
I'm afraid I don't know the official translation, but I recently had to translate the same expression as a title, and after much brain-racking, thought of this. Don't know if it helps...
| Anna Kiff
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