“[reading a work in translation] is like viewing a piece of Flemish tapestry on the wrong side.” — Cervantes Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I long to forget… It is painful to be conscious of two worlds.” — Eva Hoffman 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
“translations are like wives—either beautiful or faithful, seldom both.” — Raymond Ibrahim 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
It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization. — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a perfect, ideal, or 'correct' translation. A translator is always trying to extend his knowledge and… — Peter Newmark Copy Share Image
What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the… — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
“Of the 193 recognized countries in the world, only politically isolated North Korea is considered monolingual.” — Nataly Kelly Copy Share Image
Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time,… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak. — Eliot Weinberger Copy Share Image
Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation. — Beck Copy Share Image
There is a new venue for theory, necessarily impure, where it emerges in and as the very event of cultural translation. This… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
There is an old Italian proverb about the nature of translation: "Traddutore, traditore!" This means simply, "Translators-traitors!" Of course, as you can… — Daniel Wallace Copy Share Image
“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
It's not a natural translation, transition, to take something from stage to screen. Onstage your action is communicated through the spoken word… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
“The Tao Te Ching is partly in prose, partly in verse; but as we define poetry now, not by rhyme and meter… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. I read… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My metaphor for translation has always been that translation is really a performance art. You take the original and try to perform… — Ken Liu 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
“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
“It was under English trees that I meditated on that lost labyrinth: I pictured it perfect and inviolate on the secret summit… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
When you begin to read a poem you are entering a foreign country whose laws and language and life are a kind… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“Let not the rash marble risk garrulous breaches of oblivion's omnipotence, in many words recalling name, renown, events, birthplace. All those glass… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Translating is a respectable, valuable, creative and worthwhile use of a human brain. — David Bellos Copy Share Image
What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The best translations are always the ones in the language the author can't read. — Jorge Amado Copy Share Image
True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
“The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you>> Lost in Translation” — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
“Those who can't, and can't teach, translate. (attrib: F.L. Vanderson)” — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
“Toda traducción es mejorable cuando no la has hecho tú, sino otro traductor.” — Kseniya Tokareva Copy Share Image
I do a lot of recipe creation. Translation: cooking tempting dishes that must be eaten. — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
Translations are a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The first rule of translation: make sure you know at least one of the bloody languages! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
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