[A_D_E_P_T]

Ezra Pound did an awful lot of translation from Japanese, though he didn't know the language. He got rough word-for-word translations from friends, and used them as a starting point.

When poets translate poetry, I believe that this is usually the case.

[nine_k]

"In prose, the translator is a servant to the original.author; in poetry, a rival" (don't remember the attribution).