“The storm that batters the magnolia’s impermeable leaves, the long-drawn drum roll of Martian thunder with its hail ... lighting that makes… — Geoffrey Hill after Montale 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
When a translation is very good, it is fascinating to see how the book changes and yet stays the same. I think… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a… — Daniel Everett 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
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
“Every text is unique and, at the same time, it is the translation of another text. No text is entirely original because… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“Raphael looked like he might have laughed if he'd been younger and more cheerful. 'Why are you using the Jesuit dictionary?' 'How… — Natasha Pulley Copy Share Image
In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of… — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to… — Suzy Kassem 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
The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me.… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
I don't write thinking directly about what I'm feeling, usually. I just let myself write whatever comes out without it necessarily being… — Julia Holter Copy Share Image
I grew up with Mark Twain, and we had the complete Hemingway at home, of course in German translation. — Jan Vogler Copy Share Image
“Our words are often only vague, inadequate descriptions of our thoughts. Something gets lost in translation every time we try to express… — Oliver Gaspirtz Copy Share Image
“Love and translation look alike in their grammar. To love someone implies transforming their words into ours. Making an effort to understand… — Andrés Neuman Copy Share Image
To me, the process of art is very much a process of translation, of borrowing. — Julia Holter Copy Share Image
“Fragments of a vessel which are to be glued together must match one another in the smallest details, although they need not… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Translation software is not making translators obsolete. Has medical diagnostic software made doctors obsolete?” — Nataly Kelly Copy Share Image
As a child, I would say that I wanted to become a dancer to honour music. For me, dancing is the physical… — Sofia Boutella Copy Share Image
