“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
Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of… — Robert Heinecken Copy Share Image
Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces… — Italo Calvino 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
“Braulio rises and extends his hands, making peace. " No hay pedo ," he says, the absurd lower-class slang for "There's no… — Luis Alberto Urrea 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
When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
To work with Kaz on this kind of project is a fascinating process...He seems to be Dogen himself when offering the translations… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
Doubtless many can recall certain books which have greatly influenced their lives, and in my own case one stands out especially-a translation… — Douglas Houghton Campbell Copy Share Image
In every art we are always obliged to return to the accepted means of expression, the conventional language of the art. What… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
We translated the script together with them. And during the process of translation, they rewrote the scripts. They put a lot into… — Ciro Guerra Copy Share Image
All nonfiction writers, whether they like it or not, are translators. The translator is the perfect journalist. The best journalism endeavors to… — Ilan Stavans Copy Share Image
Alternate translation: Come brethren, if you have a mind to be ingrafted in the vine, It is a pity to see you… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Regarding R. H. Blyth: The first book in English based on the saijiki is R. H. Blyth's Haiku, published in four volumes… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
I've been working a lot with identity and roots, being part of your roots. I went into this topic where I was… — eL Seed Copy Share Image
The word mantra comes from two Sanskrit words man, ("to think") and tra ("tool'). So the literal translation is "a tool of… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
[Alternate translation:] The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
The goal of Bible translation is be transparent to the original text - to see as clearly as possible what the biblical… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
Like translation itself, Asymptote is a fluid web reaching out to all sides, bringing texts and readers together, through the most improbable… — Jonathan Littell Copy Share Image
Jen and I were accustomed to our father's last-will-and-testament diction, and were at times free to interrupt Atticus for a translation when… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
It's impossible to make a movie out of 'Naked Lunch.' A literal translation just wouldn't work. It would cost $400 million to… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
A translation can never equal the original; it can approach it, and its quality can only be judged as to accuracy by… — Gregory Rabassa Copy Share Image
If you want to feel humor too exquisite and subtle for translation, sit invisibly among a gang of Negro workers. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
There is a insularity within American fiction even for adults. It's very tough for books in translation in the US. — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
I would recognise myself in each of his translations and he would feel betrayed and annoyed whenever I didn't write something the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would feel pretty embarrassed if I was doing what I do and I wasn't at least attempting the eloquent translation of… — El-P Copy Share Image
Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of… — Oleg Cassini Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, unless the job description included a translation of the prologue of The Canterbury Tales, I was dreadfully under-qualified. — Rachel Vincent 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
Faction is the greatest evil and the most common danger. "Faction" is the conventional English translation of the Greek stasis, one of… — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
And after I started working for the Bureau, most of my translation duties included translations of documents and investigations that actually started… — Sibel Edmonds Copy Share Image
There is an old Latin quotation in regard to the poet which says 'Poeta nascitur non fit' the translation of which is-… — Joseph Devlin Copy Share Image
Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write; and it is in their hands… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Though most of my titles are translated into about 7 to 8 languages, I feel that translations, to some extent, can lose… — Sudha Murty 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
Aimer, ce n'est point nous regarder l'un l'autre, mais regarder ensemble dans la meme direction. English Translation: To love is not to… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The linguistic clumsiness of tourists and students might be the price we pay for the linguistic genius we displayed as babies, just… — Steven Pinker 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
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