My Own View, For What It's Worth,

It Rarely Adds Anything To Say, "in My Opinion" - Not Even Modesty. Naturally A Sentence Is Only Your Opinion; And You Are Not The Pope.

The Important Thing About Travel In Foreign Lands Is That It Breaks The Speech Habits And Makes You Blab Less, And Breaks The Habitual Space-feeling Because Of Different Village Plans And Different Landscapes. It Is Less Important That There Are Different Mores, For You Counteract These With Your Own Reaction-formations.

The Problem Of Translation Is To Retreat To A Simpler Tenor Of One's Own Style And Creatively Adjust This To One's Author.

Let Me Formulate The Artistic Disposition As Follows: It Is Reacting With One's Ideal To The Flaw In Oneself And In The World, And Somehow Making That Reaction Formation Solid Enough In The Medium So That It Indeed Becomes An Improved Bit Of Real World For Others.

We Certainly Have At Present The Dismal Situation That The Most Imaginative Men Are Directed By A Group, The Top Managers, Who Are Among The Least.