True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
The first rule of translation: make sure you know at least one of the bloody languages! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Toda traducción es mejorable cuando no la has hecho tú, sino otro traductor.” — Kseniya Tokareva Copy Share Image
I do a lot of recipe creation. Translation: cooking tempting dishes that must be eaten. — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I long to forget… It is painful to be conscious of two worlds.” — Eva Hoffman Copy Share Image
Translating is a respectable, valuable, creative and worthwhile use of a human brain. — David Bellos Copy Share Image
“It is natural for a translator to be prejudiced in favour of his adopted work. More impartial readers may not be so… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
“Virtually anything can be translated—“X cannot be translated” usually means nothing more exciting than “We have a word, X, that you need… — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
I write my novels in English first; then they are translated into Turkish by professional translators. Then I take their translation and… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
True translation is transparent: it does not obscure the original, does not stand in its light, but rather allows pure language, as… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
For the version of this CD released in Japan, a translation of the English lyrics is included, but there are lots of… — Utada Hikaru Copy Share Image
“So the poor translator must not just go back and forth between two languages, but if he is worthy of his calling… — Gregory Rabassa Copy Share Image
I have always maintained that translation is essentially the closest reading one can possibly give a text. The translator cannot ignore "lesser"… — Gregory Rabassa Copy Share Image
“We know there are colours in the spectrum untranslatable to our eyes; sounds beyond the range of our hearing; sensations beyond the… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
“When I spoke to her in Spanish I was not translating, I was not thinking my thoughts in English first, but I… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Poetry is a second translation of the soul's feeling; it must be rendered into thought, and thought must change its nebulous robe… — Frances Ridley Havergal Copy Share Image
'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“But then it came time for me to make my journey—into America. [... N]o coincidence that my first novel is called Americana… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“In antiquity , for instance, one of the dominant images of the translators was that of a builder: his (usually it was… — Andrew Chesterman Copy Share Image
It is in the translation that the innocence lost after the first reading is restored under another guise, since the reader is… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“Larinas – profesorius, kuris moka lietuvių kalbą, o Šišova – poetė, kuri kiaurai pažįsta Cvirkiuką ir girdi, kaip skleidžiasi gėlelė. (Larinas is… — Petras Cvirka Copy Share Image
“The boundaries between us had been breached for good, we gave a new meaning t the notion that man and wife were… — Lorna Sage Copy Share Image
“I’ve learned, from working with translators over the years, that the original novel is, in a way, a translation itself. It is… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Many terribly quiet customers exist but none more terribly quiet than Man his footsteps pass so perilously soft across the sea in… — Sophocles Carson Anne Copy Share Image
“The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Reading a poem in translation," wrote Bialek, "is like kissing a woman through a veil"; and reading Greek poems, with a mixture… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
“I remember a conversation which we had once about translating. Hugo knew nothing about translating, but when he learnt that I was… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Of course my books are translated into many languages. I have here, in my home, translations on my shelf of my books… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization. — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
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