Ko Un is a crucial poet for the twenty-first century, and this is an enormously fresh and vivid translation. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
It is part of the business of marketing to muddy the distinction between altruism and cynicism. — Don Watson Copy Share Image
Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter. — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
I wasn't happy with Tagore's own translations in English. Maybe he was, but I wasn't, so I took it upon myself to… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
Of all social institutions language is least amenable to initiative. It blends with the life of society, and the latter, inert by… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
People went to war as a result of it and even today, every Sunday, the Bible in translation is being read to… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
It would not be easy even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
The Bible has been through at least half a dozen translations by the time you read it. Plus, when the word of… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why there are so many versions of Chekhov is that translations date in a way that the original… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully armed; I announce a life that shall be copious, vehement,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“To translate a text is to be conducted into its mysteries in a way that no mere act of reading—however conscientious or… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answers. It's here that I try… — Taryn Simon Copy Share Image
When I was young I once found a book in a Dutch translation, 'The leaves of Grass'. It was the first time… — Karel Appel Copy Share Image
Opens up a whole new view of Beckett. The strong mutual attraction between Beckett and Cunard may help explain the leftist political… — Barney Rosset Copy Share Image
Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
It skims in through the eye, and by means of the utterly delicate retina hurls shadows like insect legs inward for translation.… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Like her friend and admirer Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst was a passionate explorer of the sacred and the profane, the pure and… — Benjamin Moser Copy Share Image
In the years since The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, Voinovich has sharpened his satire, and Monumental Propaganda is… — Ken Kalfus 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
Al-Ghazali is the most important philosophical theologian of classical Islam, and Moderation in Belief is among his most important works. It sets… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
Khairani Barokka is a writer, spoken-word poet, visual artist and performer whose work has a strong vein of activism, particularly around disability,… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
A 1998 study was done in Hebrew by an Israeli scholar, Yosef Grodzinsky, and the English translation of the title is Good… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Changing words isn't so hard. Recognizing a particular sound, swapping it for another - that was easy even for your ancestors. Reading… — Peadar Ó Guilín Copy Share Image
So what Jesus taught must be understood from the deepest level and that is one of the best sayings to show that… — Goswami Kriyananda 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
That's a waste of time. If you really understand Zen... you can use any book. You could use the Bible. You could… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The translation process becomes a highly subjective thing - turning reds and blues into black-and-whiteness. It's really bizarre for me. — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
A song is like a smile. If you meet people from another country, even if you don't speak the same language, you… — Clay Aiken Copy Share Image
I don't think that someone who does not speak the original language can ever expect to produce a real translation. — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
I am not one of those translators who think that working closely with the writer will yield the best translation. — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
So much gets lost in the translation. Even if you sat there listening to it with a microscope, there's no way you're… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Translation is a disturbing craft because there is precious little certainty about what we are doing, which makes it so difficult in… — Gregory Rabassa Copy Share Image
“Translating from #cat is easy - you just ignore everything, then you decide what you want it to have said, thought, or… — Will Advise Copy Share Image
I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end… — Pharrell Williams Copy Share Image
If art is the poetic interpretation of nature, photography is the exact translation; it is exactitude in art or the complement of… — Charles Negre Copy Share Image
The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom… — Edwin Booth Copy Share Image
Government exists to create and preserve conditions in which people can translate their ideas into practical reality. In the best of times,… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
Air power speaks a strategic language so new that translation into the hackneyed idiom of the past is impossible. — Alexander P. de Seversky Copy Share Image
