Of course we may have any number of translations of a…

Certain supplementary restrictions imposed on the text compel us to perceive it as poetry. As soon as one assigns a given text to the…

— Yuri Lotman

Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that a translation…

— Lydia Davis

If I text you first,you better apprciate it because I don't do it for just anyone

— Anonymous

If you text me first you better have something to talk about. Don't hit me up expecting me to start the conversation. It was…

— Nikhil Saluja

When you don't text back, you better be typing me a letter..

— Anonymous

In fact, many of the quotes in my books are quotes which were translated from English and that I read already translated into Spanish.…

— Agustin Fernandez Mallo

Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured "translation errors" could create interesting new meanings.

— Hal Duncan

Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of…

— Marilyn Hacker

The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and the translators…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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

— Rumi

A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of location, the…

— David Nicholls

The translation process becomes a highly subjective thing - turning reds and blues into black-and-whiteness. It's really bizarre for me.

— Robert Longo

The translation called good has original value as a work of art.

— Benedetto Croce

“My goal is to act as a faithful interpreter, preserving as much of the original's nuances of meaning as possible without embellishment or omission.…

— Ken Liu

Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have corrupted our…

— Richard M. Weaver