Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
To me, the process of art is very much a process of translation, of borrowing. — Julia Holter Copy Share Image
A translation is no translation unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it. — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
“The truth is sometimes lost in translation when the facts are not understood” — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world. — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
“To deny access to translation and interpreting services oppresses human rights and violates laws.” — Nataly Kelly Copy Share Image
“THE TRANSLATION SERVICE And when I asked you how you’d been I meant I missed you more than I’ve ever missed anything… — pleasefindthis Copy Share Image
Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading. — Craig Thompson Copy Share Image
More and more the writer is aware of an international community of readers for whom dense language use and frequent local references… — Tim Parks Copy Share Image
I write my novels in English first; then they are translated into Turkish by professional translators. Then I take their translation and… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
When a translator translates my book, it is no longer just my book. It is the translator's book, too. So the book… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information-hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I believe every translation is a process in which something is lost in the original precisely so that something is gained in… — Agustin Fernandez Mallo Copy Share Image
I read pretty well in French and Spanish. I don't want to read a book written in French or Spanish in translation. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
“Similarly, Haynes (1998, viii) notes that many professional translators, and their organizations, remain remarkably uninformed with regards to the progress made in… — Lynne Bowker Copy Share Image
Wo die Liebe herrscht, da gibt es keinen machtwillen, und wo die macht den vorrang hat, da fehlt die Liebe. Das eine… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Yellow Submarine' for the Beatles. I wrote the screenplay for 'The Games,' about the Olympic Games. I wrote 'Love Story,'… — Erich Segal Copy Share Image
Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written. The very same book, even if it is… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“Hence the vanity of translation; it were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Speaking in Creation's tongues, hearing Creation's voices, the boundary of our soul expands. Earth has many voices. Those who understand that Earth… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder how my life would have worked out if my books had been translated into English sooner, because English is… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
“That was the strange thing about translation, speaking someone else's words in a voice that somehow was and wasn't your own. You… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
“So much of translating, Gil once told me, takes place in an imaginary space where the writer and the translator come together.… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“The boundaries between us had been breached for good, we gave a new meaning t the notion that man and wife were… — Lorna Sage Copy Share Image
The practice of translation rests on two presuppositions. The first is that we are all different: we speak different tongues, and see… — David Bellos Copy Share Image
“I’ve learned, from working with translators over the years, that the original novel is, in a way, a translation itself. It is… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Many terribly quiet customers exist but none more terribly quiet than Man his footsteps pass so perilously soft across the sea in… — Sophocles Carson Anne Copy Share Image
“The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Our words are often only vague, inadequate descriptions of our thoughts. Something gets lost in translation every time we try to express… — Oliver Gaspirtz Copy Share Image
We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
