Poetic interpretations: Two souls with but a single thought.
Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
~John Keats
I saw a couple of people use this line in another thread, and my mind got to going...just started playing around with some interpretations of the poem...breaking out of the box, so to speak. Wondering what the natives think of these as attempts at valid translations while trying to make the Spanish more poetic than a stricter translation would be...
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Strict Translation
Dos almas con no más que uno pensamiento, dos corazones que laten como uno.
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(Attempts at) Poetic Interpretations
Dos almas, uno deseo; dos corazones, uno latido.
Dos almas pero una mente; dos corazones pero uno latido.
Dos almas con el deseo mismo; dos corazones con el ritmo mismo.
Dos almas que pensan igual; dos corazones que laten igual.
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By the way, the "but" is interesting in the poem as it is being used to mean "no more than" (Two souls with no more than a single thought...sort of emphasizing the fact that there is only one thought). We do use but like this in conversation (or at least I do), but I'd say it's fairly rare (even for me). It seems more common in older writings, though.
I could be way off, but it's possibly a shorthand for "nothing but" meaning "nothing except."
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Strict Translation
Dos almas con no más que uno pensamiento, dos corazones que laten como uno.
It should be "Dos almas con no más que un pensamiento....
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(Attempts at) Poetic Interpretations
Dos almas, un deseo; dos corazones, un latido.
Dos almas pero una mente; dos corazones pero un latido.
Dos almas con el mismo deseo; dos corazones con el mismo ritmo.
Dos almas que pensan igual; dos corazones que laten igual.
I'd go for "Dos almas y un sólo pensamiento. Dos corazones que laten como si fueran uno"
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