Translation Quotes · Page 6

The language of translation ought never to attract attention to itself.

— John Hookham Frere

The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry.

— Leonardo Sciascia

“...A painting was a translation of the language of my heart.”

— Amy Tan

God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.

— Thomas Keating

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

Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.

— Aimee Mann

Booking.com is one of the biggest translation companies in the world.

— Gillian Tans

Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.

— Anthony Burgess

We find our voice, we lose our voice, we retrieve it, honor it, and hopefully, learn how to share it with others…

— Terry Tempest Williams

The truth is, I have an excellent team, a staff that handles Blue Elephant, my translation company, perfectly. It is like a…

— Chinmayi

[O]ne could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be…

— C. Wright Mills

Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in…

— Marilyn Hacker

I translated an Emile Zola book, 'The Belly of Paris,' because I didn't find an existing translation that captured his sense of…

— Mark Kurlansky

The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a…

— Utada Hikaru

As you know, transforming such a big book [The Gunslinger Born] into graphic novel format is really a process of translation.

— Robin Furth

Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a…

— Okakura Kakuzo

“So many people consider their work a daily punishment. Whereas I love my work as a translator. Translation is a journey over…

— Amara Lakhous

On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of an obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth century…

— Umberto Eco

“A translator, caught in the space between two tongues. Such people tend to come a little bit unglued from the task of…

— Elena Mauli Shapiro

The translator has to be a good writer. The translator has to hear music too. And it might not be exactly your…

— Sam Lipsyte

“However multilingual we may be as readers, we find ourselves faced with a fundamental, inescapable responsibility. We must understand that any book…

— Michael Cunningham

“Don't fret my dear. If art is translation of the ephemeral into observable form, then always remember that it is the translationn…

— Jomny Sun

To translate, one must have a style of his own, for the translation will have no rhythm or nuance, which come from…

— Paul Goodman

I have a deep love for the art of translation, and I couldn't find a novel that captured the fascinating, reckless adventure…

— Idra Novey

What is the task of the translator? I think the task depends on the book and on the translator.

— Idra Novey

Please find yourself somewhere else (in translation: get lost)

— Nishan Panwar

It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.

— Virginia Woolf

“Death is only a translation of life into another language.”

— Francis Marion Crawford

Good translations are one of the vital necessities of our time.

— Lucas Leiva

“Now tell me what happened—in words. I want your translation of the mathematics.”

— Isaac Asimov

The Best Translator is the one.. wh0 can translate s0mebody's Silence..!!

— Ritu

“In Iraq, interpreters were ten times more likely to be killed than were U.S. troops.”

— Nataly Kelly

“To deny access to translation and interpreting services oppresses human rights and violates laws.”

— Nataly Kelly

Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

“The truth is sometimes lost in translation when the facts are not understood”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

A translation is no translation unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

— John Millington Synge

To me, the process of art is very much a process of translation, of borrowing.

— Julia Holter

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.

— John Denham

A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.

— Victor Hugo

Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured "translation errors" could create interesting new meanings.

— Hal Duncan