It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Pictures rule, but words define, explain, express, direct, and hold together our thoughts and what we know. — Don Watson Copy Share Image
The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The Haitians, who knew something about suffering and survival, had a beautiful phrase... The Translation is not perfect, but the nut of… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
The fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration. To keep to one version or one translation alone is… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
I think translations should convey the feelings expressed in the original work. This is what I have believed in and practised. — Gulzar Copy Share Image
Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition,… — Voltaire 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
Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Kaz came to Switzerland where I was teaching to share with me [Heart Sutra] wondrous insight. There he and I worked on… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
You've often heard me say - perhaps too often - that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The translation of the Veda will hereafter tell to a great extent on the fate of India and on the growth of… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
I have done literary translation because the University of Arkansas, where I did my MFA, was program of creative writing and translation,… — Miroslav Penkov Copy Share Image
Not to admire, is all the art I know To make men happy, or to keep them so. Thus Horace wrote we… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
With the myriad of new Bible translations on the market today, few stand out. The ESV is one of the few, and… — Daniel B. Wallace Copy Share Image
To translate kinesics or paralinguistic messages into words is likely to introduce gross falsification due not merely to the human propensity for… — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
Generally risk-averse, specialist translation imprints have also hollowed out a fairly comfortable niche for themselves: they get ninety percent of the profits… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
“The Bible is a collection of stories and myths based on hearsay transmitted from generation to generation and which were recorded by… — Brian Baker Copy Share Image
Not that I ever felt the necessity of proving that all human beings suffer the same way, feel joy the same way,… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
Whenever I visit Korea she [Kang] buys me lunch and takes me to a gallery. As if all this wasn't enough, she… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
When you begin to read a poem you are entering a foreign country whose laws and language and life are a kind… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
I did my BA in English lit, and hated the restriction - I'd always read more in translation than not; coming from… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
In case any are puzzled by the different translations from which I draw strength and help and delight, it is like this:… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
![“Kaz came to Switzerland where I was teaching to share with me [Heart Sutra] wondrous insight. There he and I worked on this new translation - with my part being to help render it into a verse form that would be good to chant. Since I have worked with many dying people over the years and often…” quote by Joan Halifax](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1c9/joan-halifax-11817_be-good_kaz-came-to-switzerland-where-i-was-teac_1585200.png)
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