Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice. — John Donne Copy Share Image
Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization. — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
“Those who can't, and can't teach, translate. (attrib: F.L. Vanderson)” — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
A translator is essentially a reader and we all read differently, except that a translator's reading remains in unchanging print — Gregory Rabassa Copy Share Image
Even a poor translator couldn't kill a style that moves with such narrative clarity. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I have a tendency to trust translators, mainly because nobody does it for the money. — Juan Gabriel Copy Share Image
Writer's make national literature, while translators make universal literature. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
In some sense the text and the translator are locked in struggle - 'I attacked that sentence, it resisted me, I attacked… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
It's important to get a translator who will ask the questions in a sensitive and thoughtful way. Knowing the ethnicity issues, the… — Peter Menzel Copy Share Image
Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Freud's translator accidentally omitted 'fashion' in the psychoanalytic list of primary instinctual drives; along with the drive to sexuality there is the… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
An actor's life is the shadow of a cloud, the echo of a sound, the memory of a dream, nothing come of… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
Common European thought is the fruit of the immense toil of translators. Without translators, Europe would not exist; translators are more important… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Either the translator leaves the author in peace, as much as is possible, and moves the reader towards him: or he leaves… — Friedrich Schleiermacher Copy Share Image
There was - there still is - a big shortage of good Chinese-English literary translators. So for two years in London, I… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
An engineer can look at the data, but he needs a translator from the cockpit - the driver - to understand it… — Michael Schumacher Copy Share Image
In addition to pumping the blood of life within our bodies, we may think of the heart as a belief-to-matter translator. It… — Gregg Braden 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
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
The impresario functions as a bridge and a translator. He or she is a bridge between the creative point of view -… — John Kao Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The translators of the LXX did not attempt to find a Greek word to correspond in sense with every Hebrew word or… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing. — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard! — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To have the translator be a figure in the book's presentation seems like a big thing, especially for a book that's really… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
It is only logical for the translator to become a part of the world of the author. — Ventseslav Konstantinov Copy Share Image
“To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In Japan they're definitely more over the top. They had four Boogie stacks and 20 guitars. But otherwise it's pretty much the… — John Petrucci Copy Share Image
One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
The translators of the Bible were masters of an English style much fitter for that work than any we see in our… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
It was an epiphany when I realized you don't have to call yourself a linguist, a translator, a poet. You can call… — Jan Peacock Copy Share Image
the translator, a lonely sort of acrobat, becomes confused in a labyrinth of paradox, or climbs a pyramid of dependent clauses and… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
Translators who choose to work on canonized writers can usually lean on an extensive critical apparatus around either the author or the… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
My best friend Madison keeps a list on her phone of all of the different English slang that I say, so she… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
A satisfactory translation is not always possible, but a good translator is never satisfied with it. It can usually be improved. (Newmark) — Peter Newmark Copy Share Image
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