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German term or phrase:	Alles gaben Götter die unendlichen Ihren Lieblingen ganz
English translation:	Another translation
Entered by:	Veronikka

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13:47 Jan 26, 2007

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German term or phrase: Alles gaben Götter die unendlichen Ihren Lieblingen ganz

"Alles gaben Götter die unendlichen
Ihren Lieblingen ganz
Alle Freuden die unendlichen
Alle Schmerzen die unendlichen ganz".

Any clue, my friends?

Veronikka

Another translation

Explanation:
I found this one:

All things the gods bestow, the infinite ones
On their darlings completely.
All the joys, the infinite ones
All the pains, the infinite ones, completely.

http://gracefulpresence.blogspot.com/2005_11_01_archive.html

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... and another one:

The gods give everything, the infinite ones,
To their beloved, completely,
Every pleasure, the infinite ones,
Every suffering, the infinite ones, completely.
[tr. Spender]

http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/BA/G.p.txt

Selected response from:

Nesrin
Local time: 13:18

Grading comment

I want to thank Klaus, Cybeles, Sibel and Kim for your help and attention...

Cybeles, thanks for the translation in Portuguese - I loved it!

Nesrin, thanks a lot for both options.

You guys are great!

Veronikka
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3 +5

Loose translation

Kim Metzger

The gods give everything, the infinite ones, to their beloved, completely...

Purdue_PhD

Another translation

Nesrin

Uma sugestão... veja abaixo

Cybeles Lehner

My try

gangels

Discussion entries: 3

Answers

6 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +5

Loose translation

Explanation:
I have a loose translation in my Goethe volume:

To those whom they love, the gods who are infinite give all things wholly: all joys, which are infinite, all sorrows, which are infinite, wholly.

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Literal:

Alles gaben Götter die unendlichen - the infinite gods gave everything

Ihren Lieblingen ganz - wholly to those whom they love

Alle Freuden die unendlichen - all joys, which are infinite

Alle Schmerzen die unendlichen ganz - all sorrows, which are infinite - wholly

Kim Metzger
Mexico
Local time: 07:18
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 201

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

agree

Henry Schroeder: Wow, that's in a published volume, I must not get it - sounds terrible to me. Or is that a Mexican English translation of Goethe? // Your own literal version sounds a thousand times better in my ears + it's closer to the original, but I'm missing smthg...

8 mins

-> It's in the Penguin Poets series: Goethe, selected verse.

agree

Paul Cohen: Thanks for amazing the Penguin Poets series reference, Kim! If it was good enough for the antipodal ornithological publishers...

24 mins

-> Yes, the translations are not meant to be poetry - just a general idea.

agree

Andrea Black: I like your literal version.

30 mins

-> Actually, Goethe used "geben" and not "gaben".

agree

Nesrin: Was Goethe not familiar with the rules of comma usage?? // I just found another translation online, please check below.

2 hrs

-> He had a license to be artistic.

agree

Bernhard Sulzer: with the literal one - on second thought - I like this version a lot.

3 hrs

neutral

Cybeles Lehner: "The infinite Gods give" is not correct... but "the gods give the infinite"... (also in the present time).

9 days

4 hrs confidence:

Another translation

Nesrin
Local time: 13:18
Native speaker of: Arabic
PRO pts in category: 20

Grading comment

4 hrs confidence:

The gods give everything, the infinite ones, to their beloved, completely...

Explanation:
This is from : [All selections from "The Poems of Goethe," New York: John D. Williams, 1882.]

The gods give everything, the infinite ones,
To their beloved, completely,
Every pleasure, the infinite ones,
Every suffering, the infinite ones, completely.

Reference: http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/BA/G.p.txt

Purdue_PhD
Local time: 08:18
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

German,

Turkish

9 hrs confidence:

My try

Explanation:
The gods, in their infinity, bestowed it all upon their loved ones, undivided
All joys, in their infinity
All pains, in their infinity, undivided

gangels
Local time: 06:18
Native speaker of:

English,

German
PRO pts in category: 24

1 day23 hrs confidence:

Uma sugestão... veja abaixo

Explanation:
All things the gods give, in their infinity
To their beloved, completely
All the joys, in their infinity,
All the pains, in their infinity, completely

And as you speak Portuguese, maybe it could here, so here it goes:

Tudo os Deuses dão, os infinitos,
A quem amam, por inteiro:
Todos prazeres, infinitos,
Todos pesares, infinitos, por inteiro.

(So beautiful, yet so hard to reach the depth of his words... )

Cybeles Lehner
Brazil
Native speaker of:

Portuguese

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Jan 26, 2007 - Changes made by Kim Metzger:
Field (write-in)	literacy => literature

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