“Sometimes I long to forget… It is painful to be conscious of two worlds.” — Eva Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Shen Nung was more than just a ruler. To that end, his name’s English translation is “divine farmer.” — Josh Chetwynd Copy Share Image
A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
To me, the process of art is very much a process of translation, of borrowing. — Julia Holter Copy Share Image
A translation is no translation unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it. — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
“The truth is sometimes lost in translation when the facts are not understood” — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
“To deny access to translation and interpreting services oppresses human rights and violates laws.” — Nataly Kelly Copy Share Image
“An ideal translation should, I believe, reproduce the effect of the original, but I have found that the best any translator can… — Harold G. Henderson Copy Share Image
And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have… — Cornelia Funke 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
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
For me, every translation is a new book, with the translator inevitably broadening the meaning of the original book in any translation. — Agustin Fernandez Mallo Copy Share Image
In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.' — P. J. O'Rourke 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
“Less doth yearning trouble him who knoweth many songs, or with his hands can touch the harp: his possession is his gift… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Speaking in Creation's tongues, hearing Creation's voices, the boundary of our soul expands. Earth has many voices. Those who understand that Earth… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder how my life would have worked out if my books had been translated into English sooner, because English is… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
“That was the strange thing about translation, speaking someone else's words in a voice that somehow was and wasn't your own. You… — Robin Wasserman 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
This word "description" may be disconcerting when used to refer to what is generally called a translation. But when one wishes to… — Gaston Bachelard 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
“The word 'translation' comes, etymologically, from the Latin for 'bearing across'. Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“We rarely get the chance to see things anew. I remember a Latin translation that caused me to fail an exam at… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
In order to translate a sentence from English into French two things are necessary. First, we must understand thoroughly the English sentence.… — George Polya 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
“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
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
“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
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world. — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
“Now tell me what happened—in words. I want your translation of the mathematics.” — Isaac Asimov 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 . That became my subject, the subject that shaped my work. When I get a French translation of one of my books that says 'translated from the American', I think, 'Yes, that's…” quote by Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/74f/don-delillo-294_books_but-then-it-came-time-for-me-to-make-my_1431054.jpg)
