Total experiences, of which there are many kinds, tend again and again to be apprehended only as revivals or translations of the… — Susan Sontag 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
Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation; and I believe a degree of… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Penning an advice column for the literary website The Rumpus, [Strayed] worked anonymously, using the pen name Sugar, replying to letters from… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
There's something to be said about all music being some translation of our languaging, our way of communicating. It's a language. This… — Suzanne Ciani Copy Share Image
To me there's very few actresses who've had twenty years experience who have that cyberpunk aesthetic already baked in. Scarlett Johansson comes… — Rupert Sanders Copy Share Image
These are crystalline - oftentimes incandescent - translations of Juarroz's powerful metaphysical poems where eternity and silence jut up against a world… — Jorie Graham Copy Share Image
To translate, one must have a style of his own, for the translation will have no rhythm or nuance, which come from… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Of all social institutions language is least amenable to initiative. It blends with the life of society, and the latter, inert by… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
English can be tricky because there are so many false cognates, but sometimes, as long the idea conveyed is not wrong, these… — Adam Morris 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
I remember having a discussion with [Kaz] about his translation of the word shunyata as "boundlessness," instead of the more traditional "emptiness."… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful. — Plato Copy Share Image
Something may have been lost in translation, but it certainly wasn't love — Erich Segal Copy Share Image
Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I have done literary translation because the University of Arkansas, where I did my MFA, was program of creative writing and translation,… — Miroslav Penkov Copy Share Image
[On the New Testament:] I ... must enter my protest against the false translation of some passages by the men who did… — Sarah Moore Grimke 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
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
Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter. One word absent from a sentence can drastically change… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
I do believe that one's writing life needs to be kept separate from Po-Biz. Personally, I deal with this by not attending… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There aren't really rules for painting, but there’s certain facts and fictions about painting. Part of what I do is document another… — Vija Celmins Copy Share Image
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