Translation is not original creation - that is what one must remember. In translation, some loss is inevitable. — Joseph Brodsky 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
The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own. — Ned Rorem 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 that which transforms everything so that nothing changes. — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
“silence is God’s first language; everything else is a poor translation.” — David G. Benner Copy Share Image
All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it,… — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
I've heard of translators collaborating closely with their authors, sometimes even living with them for a while, but that's not me. — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
“Translation software is not making translators obsolete. Has medical diagnostic software made doctors obsolete?” — Nataly Kelly Copy Share Image
Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual,… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
“the best of Cervantes is untranslatable, and this undeniable fact is in itself an incentive [for one and all] to learn Spanish.” — Aubrey F.G. Bell Copy Share Image
“All translations are made up" opined Vikram, "Languages are different for a reason. You can't move ideas between them without losing something” — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not… — Yevgeny Yevtushenko Copy Share Image
“I wrote Vis consilii epers mole ruit sua on the front of the first tag, and on the inside I put the… — Jennifer Gooch Hummer Copy Share Image
As the writer, you can choose the word that seems best in terms of meaning, nuance, sound, etc. As the translator you… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
In English, there is one word for sister. In Chinese, there are two separate words, for elder and younger sister. This is… — Andrew Ng Copy Share Image
The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole… — Alma Guillermoprieto Copy Share Image
“The translator's task is essentially a difficult and often a thankless one. He is severely criticized if he makes a mistake, but… — Eugene A. Nida Copy Share Image
“Entire sections of them simply cannot be translated - the characters are legible and well-known, but when put together they do not… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I don't speak any languages well enough to make an expert assessment on writing in translation, but since I'm interested in awkwardness… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we… — Edith Hamilton 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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“So much of translating, Gil once told me, takes place in an imaginary space where the writer and the translator come together.… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
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