By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow. — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share Image
I feel French is very close to Urdu. Both languages are beautiful. Sadly, their beauty is lost in translation. — Amisha Patel Copy Share Image
“Living as he now lived was like reading a good book in a poor translation...” — Henry James Copy Share Image
A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Teaching translation is more of an editing job. You act as editor. But you can have fun with it. — Gregory Rabassa 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
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
I think of translations as passing some scholarly smell test: you can read the words of the translation and be reasonably sure… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
“Literary translation is not merely an act of picking words from one language and keeping it by dipping in the vessel of… — Suman Pokhrel Copy Share Image
I have some English words on the first album, but any time I try to do it, you miss something. You think… — Stromae Copy Share Image
“Translation work involves knowing not just the structure of the language to be translated, but the cultural framework that surrounds it.” — Corinne McKay Copy Share Image
Even though I believe a superlative translation can achieve timelessness, that doesn't mean I think other translators shouldn't attempt other versions. The… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
I love the song 'El Rey.' And for years, I never knew what the song was totally about. It was something new… — George Strait Copy Share Image
I only translate authors whose work already interests me as a reader, and that's a decision I make based on multiple encounters… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
“Translators need a lot of skills besides fluency in at least two languages; translators need to be excellent writers in their native… — Corinne McKay Copy Share Image
Translation is a form of passive aggression. In doing it, a writer chooses to forgo original authorship so as to play havoc… — Lawrence Venuti Copy Share Image
Regardless of whether the authors I've translated have been "dead and canonized," or "living and established," or even simply "emerging," I must… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
“It is (according to one’s point of view) either a wonderful piece of luck or a wise provision of God’s, that poetry… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Translators have to prove to themselves as to others that they are in control of what they do; that they do not… — Mona Baker Copy Share Image
“But what is the opposite of fidelity?' asked Professor Playfair. He was approaching the end of his dialitic; now he needed only… — R.F. Kuang Copy Share Image
Above all, translators must be native speakers. It’s not because they speak the language better – I understand that sometimes a foreigner… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
I know that a translation of a work of literature is like playing a violin concerto on the piano. You can do… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“ANNALS OF LANGUAGE WORD MAGIC How much really gets lost in translation? BY ADAM GOPNIK Once, in a restaurant in Italy with… — Anonymous 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
It is almost impossible to translate verbally and well at the same time; for the Latin (a most severe and compendious language)… — John Dryden 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
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
“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
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
“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
