What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Translating is a respectable, valuable, creative and worthwhile use of a human brain. — David Bellos Copy Share Image
Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization. — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Shen Nung was more than just a ruler. To that end, his name’s English translation is “divine farmer.” — Josh Chetwynd Copy Share Image
“translations are like wives—either beautiful or faithful, seldom both.” — Raymond Ibrahim Copy Share Image
I grew up with Mark Twain, and we had the complete Hemingway at home, of course in German translation. — Jan Vogler Copy Share Image
I have always maintained that translation is essentially the closest reading one can possibly give a text. The translator cannot ignore "lesser"… — Gregory Rabassa Copy Share Image
True translation is transparent: it does not obscure the original, does not stand in its light, but rather allows pure language, as… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.' — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
For the version of this CD released in Japan, a translation of the English lyrics is included, but there are lots of… — Utada Hikaru Copy Share Image
“Less doth yearning trouble him who knoweth many songs, or with his hands can touch the harp: his possession is his gift… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“So the poor translator must not just go back and forth between two languages, but if he is worthy of his calling… — Gregory Rabassa Copy Share Image
The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author. — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“We know there are colours in the spectrum untranslatable to our eyes; sounds beyond the range of our hearing; sensations beyond the… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
“When I spoke to her in Spanish I was not translating, I was not thinking my thoughts in English first, but I… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Poetry is a second translation of the soul's feeling; it must be rendered into thought, and thought must change its nebulous robe… — Frances Ridley Havergal Copy Share Image
In fact, many of the quotes in my books are quotes which were translated from English and that I read already translated… — Agustin Fernandez Mallo Copy Share Image
“In our country for all her greatness there is one thing she cannot do and that is translate a person wholly out… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“Larinas – profesorius, kuris moka lietuvių kalbą, o Šišova – poetė, kuri kiaurai pažįsta Cvirkiuką ir girdi, kaip skleidžiasi gėlelė. (Larinas is… — Petras Cvirka Copy Share Image
I never read the translation before publication. The most important things for me is that the emotion is captured in such a… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
Translation is a two-edged instrument: it has the special purpose of demonstrating the learner's knowledge of the foreign language, either as a… — Peter Newmark Copy Share Image
“Thank you,’ I answered, unsure of the proper American response to her gracious enthusiasm. In the Arab world, gratitude is a language… — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
I've never translated more than one book by any author. But I'm fascinated by translators who have, like Richard Zenith, who's translated… — Idra Novey Copy Share Image
“On Translating Eugene Onegin 1 What is translation? On a platter A poet's pale and glaring head, A parrot's screech, a monkey's… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“We rarely get the chance to see things anew. I remember a Latin translation that caused me to fail an exam at… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“For me, therapy is partly translation therapy, the talking cure a second-language cure. My going to a shrink is, among other things,… — Eva Hoffman Copy Share Image
“The French expression 'cul-de-sac' describes what the Baudelaire orphans found when they reached the end of the dark hallway, and like all… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
In order to translate a sentence from English into French two things are necessary. First, we must understand thoroughly the English sentence.… — George Polya Copy Share Image
“Raphael looked like he might have laughed if he'd been younger and more cheerful. 'Why are you using the Jesuit dictionary?' 'How… — Natasha Pulley Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I long to forget… It is painful to be conscious of two worlds.” — Eva Hoffman Copy Share Image
Booking.com is one of the biggest translation companies in the world. — Gillian Tans Copy Share Image
