Translations Quotes · Page 4

Something may have been lost in translation, but it certainly wasn't love

— Erich Segal

I want my voice to be consistent no matter if it's an original or a translation.

— Karin Tidbeck

I mainly wanted non-english writing poets, because I loved the idea that I was translating translations.

— Simone Muench

Fidelity to meaning alone in translation is a kind of betrayal.

— Paul Valery

Let the die be cast! [Greek: Ἀνερρίφθω κύβος; contemporary Latin (mis)translation: Iacta alea est!]

— Julius Caesar

Reading a poem in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil.

— Anne Michaels

Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes.

— Gunter Grass

The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.

— Ned Rorem

Photography speaks a universal language that does not need translation, and with an immediacy that the written word lacks. It freezes a…

— Bianca Jagger

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

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

I read the different translations of the Bible they had and really just dove into it, almost so I could prove it…

— Christian Hosoi

I find Japanese books quite baffling when I read them in translation. It's only with Haruki Murakami that I find Japanse fiction…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

"Lost in Translation" by Sofia Coppola. It's a masterpiece. I laughed a lot but was also overwhelmed by the story - a…

— Emmanuelle Bercot

I'm a believer in the benefits of translation. It's a necessity and a privilege - it would be awful to be limited…

— Daniel Alarcon

The Haitians, who knew something about suffering and survival, had a beautiful phrase... The Translation is not perfect, but the nut of…

— Rick Bragg

When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going on in the…

— Tea Obreht

Wo die Liebe herrscht, da gibt es keinen machtwillen, und wo die macht den vorrang hat, da fehlt die Liebe. Das eine…

— Carl Jung

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

Kaz came to Switzerland where I was teaching to share with me [Heart Sutra] wondrous insight. There he and I worked on…

— Joan Halifax

You've often heard me say - perhaps too often - that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what…

— Robert Frost

The translation of the Veda will hereafter tell to a great extent on the fate of India and on the growth of…

— Max Muller

Not to admire, is all the art I know To make men happy, or to keep them so. Thus Horace wrote we…

— Lord Byron

I have done literary translation because the University of Arkansas, where I did my MFA, was program of creative writing and translation,…

— Miroslav Penkov

Of course my books are translated into many languages. I have here, in my home, translations on my shelf of my books…

— Amos Oz

Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great…

— Mercedes Lackey

General editors' preface The growth of translation studies as a separate discipline is a success story of the 1980s. The subject has…

— Lawrence Venuti

One of the producers, Wonjo, was an amazing interpreter. I don't think we really knew how it was going to work at…

— Mia Wasikowska

Penning an advice column for the literary website The Rumpus, [Strayed] worked anonymously, using the pen name Sugar, replying to letters from…

— Leigh Newman

One of the things I love about translation is it obliterates the self. When I'm trying to figure out what Tu Fu…

— Sam Hamill

I find it interesting that people often seem to believe that authors of realistic fiction are directly translating their personal experiences into…

— Malinda Lo

Pictures are the idea in visual or pictorial form; and the idea has to be legible, both in the individual picture and…

— Gerhard Richter

We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation.

— Ernst Haas

There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.

— Walter Benjamin

Say that again, Commonwealth whit? (translation: what?) I'm no used tae hearing that.

— Charlie Flynn

Through the act of translation we break out of linguistic confinement and reach many other communities.

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Translation presents not merely a paradigm but the utmost case of engaged literary interpretation

— John Felstiner

They like my books better in England than in France; a translation would be very successful there.

— Marcel Proust

Of course we may have any number of translations of a given text - the more the better, really.

— Lydia Davis

silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.

— Rumi