Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs. — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing. — Aimee Mann Copy Share Image
“silence is God’s first language; everything else is a poor translation.” — David G. Benner Copy Share Image
Of course we may have any number of translations of a given text - the more the better, really. — Lydia Davis 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
If a translation doesn't have obvious writing problems, it may seem quite all right at first glance. We readers, after all, quickly… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
Como se acuerda con los pajarosla traduccion de sus idiomas?How is the translation of their languages Arranged with the birds? — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
If I make a speech, I need a translator. But music does not need a translation. People understand me through the sound.… — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
It was a revelation for me, in a practical sense, that you could write in an African language and still reach an… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author. — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
How does a poet teach himself or herself? I think chiefly by imitation, chiefly by practising it as a deliberate technical exercise… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
I never read the translation before publication. The most important things for me is that the emotion is captured in such a… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
In fact, many of the quotes in my books are quotes which were translated from English and that I read already translated… — Agustin Fernandez Mallo Copy Share Image
To translate, one must have a style of his own, for the translation will have no rhythm or nuance, which come from… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
“The evening sky is gold and vast. I’m soothed by April’s cool caress. You’re late. Too many years have passed, - I’m… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
I have a deep love for the art of translation, and I couldn't find a novel that captured the fascinating, reckless adventure… — Idra Novey Copy Share Image
The oldest cliché in the world is about "what's lost in translation," but you don't very often read much intelligent about what's… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Some of my colleagues are surprised by how little personal interaction I've had with "my" authors, but I don't translate to go… — Andre Naffis-Sahely 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
“Dreams, always dreams! and the more ambitious and delicate is the soul, the more its dreams bear it away from possibility. Each… — Aleister Crowley Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“The term satipaṭṭhāna can be explained as a compound of sati , "mindfulness" or "awareness", and upaṭṭhāna , with the u of… — Anālayo Copy Share Image
General editors' preface The growth of translation studies as a separate discipline is a success story of the 1980s. The subject has… — Lawrence Venuti Copy Share Image
Translated literature can be fascinating. There's something so intriguing about reading the text second hand - a piece of prose that has… — Katie Kitamura 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
“Thank you,’ I answered, unsure of the proper American response to her gracious enthusiasm. In the Arab world, gratitude is a language… — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
“On Translating Eugene Onegin 1 What is translation? On a platter A poet's pale and glaring head, A parrot's screech, a monkey's… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation. — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
“Translation can never do more than the approximate,so we shall, at least, be gloriously inaccurate.” — Karen Healey Copy Share Image
Translation is not original creation - that is what one must remember. In translation, some loss is inevitable. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Through the act of translation we break out of linguistic confinement and reach many other communities. — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes. — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
“[reading a work in translation] is like viewing a piece of Flemish tapestry on the wrong side.” — Cervantes Copy Share Image
Even a poor translator couldn't kill a style that moves with such narrative clarity. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
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