Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing. — Aimee Mann Copy Share Image
I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs. — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry. — Leonardo Sciascia Copy Share Image
The language of translation ought never to attract attention to itself. — John Hookham Frere Copy Share Image
Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Translation presents not merely a paradigm but the utmost case of engaged literary interpretation — John Felstiner Copy Share Image
How does a poet teach himself or herself? I think chiefly by imitation, chiefly by practising it as a deliberate technical exercise… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
I wanted to know if the 'Iliad' in the original was as relevant and contemporary as it was in translation. I then… — Caroline Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Even though Spivak’s translation met with some criticism and had to be revised several times, Of Grammatology achieved astronomical sales of nearly… — Benoît Peeters Copy Share Image
Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Como se acuerda con los pajarosla traduccion de sus idiomas?How is the translation of their languages Arranged with the birds? — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
If I make a speech, I need a translator. But music does not need a translation. People understand me through the sound.… — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
It was a revelation for me, in a practical sense, that you could write in an African language and still reach an… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
“The translation that causes our birth is a process in which a physical form is “put around” our invisible purpose, allowing us… — Touré Roberts Copy Share Image
“The evening sky is gold and vast. I’m soothed by April’s cool caress. You’re late. Too many years have passed, - I’m… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
I have a deep love for the art of translation, and I couldn't find a novel that captured the fascinating, reckless adventure… — Idra Novey Copy Share Image
To translate, one must have a style of his own, for the translation will have no rhythm or nuance, which come from… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
“In translation of poetry; there exists a possibility of components like imagination, art of wordplay, skill of constructing internal rhythm and expand… — Suman Pokhrel Copy Share Image
“Fragments of a vessel which are to be glued together must match one another in the smallest details, although they need not… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Some of my colleagues are surprised by how little personal interaction I've had with "my" authors, but I don't translate to go… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The existence of another, competing translation is a good thing, in general, and only immediately discouraging to one person - the translator… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to translate verbally and well at the same time; for the Latin (a most severe and compendious language)… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
“ANNALS OF LANGUAGE WORD MAGIC How much really gets lost in translation? BY ADAM GOPNIK Once, in a restaurant in Italy with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Intrinsic to the concept of a translator's fidelity to the effect and impact of the original is making the second version of… — Edith Grossman Copy Share Image
What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing. — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Of course we may have any number of translations of a given text - the more the better, really. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“silence is God’s first language; everything else is a poor translation.” — David G. Benner Copy Share Image
Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes. — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own. — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
“Translation can never do more than the approximate,so we shall, at least, be gloriously inaccurate.” — Karen Healey Copy Share Image
We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation. — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
Translation is not original creation - that is what one must remember. In translation, some loss is inevitable. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Through the act of translation we break out of linguistic confinement and reach many other communities. — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
