The translator constantly learns new things about himself. — Ventseslav Konstantinov Copy Share Image
Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
I am not one of those translators who think that working closely with the writer will yield the best translation. — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
A poet is the translator of the silent language of nature to the world. — Rufus Wilmot Griswold Copy Share Image
“Those who can't, and can't teach, translate. (attrib: F.L. Vanderson)” — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization. — Alexander Pushkin 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
(...) the translator of prose is the slave of the author and the translator of poetry is his rival. — Andreï Makine 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
For hundreds of years the use of the word 'man' has troubled critical scholars, careful translators, and lawyers. Difficulties occur whenever and… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
The language in New Mexico is very different. At first when you hear the speech here, you don't really know what to… — Ana Castillo 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
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
My upbringing was pretty interesting. It was a rigorous, intellectual upbringing, but with the idea that we were a part of an… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
There has to be a kind of grassroots push, a movement, as it were, against the inherent isolationism of American capitalism as… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to translate verbally and well at the same time; for the Latin (a most severe and compendious language)… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
It helps to regard soul as an active intelligence, forming and plotting each person's fate. Translators use "plot" to render the ancient… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I was in the second year of my PhD when I first had the idea - I'd recently started working as a… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
The fabliau, then, is a short story that is a tall story. It combines a burly blurting of dirty words with a… — Christopher Ricks Copy Share Image
For me, every translation is a new book, with the translator inevitably broadening the meaning of the original book in any translation. — Agustin Fernandez Mallo Copy Share Image
The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author. — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
I worked with two young women translators. One died and the other received a death threat from the Taliban. — Eliza Griswold 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." I said: "Kaz, everyone is used to the word emptiness for shunyata. This might not sit well with people. He said: "Translator's prerogative!" Then he…” quote by Joan Halifax](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/410/joan-halifax-11817_assuming_i-remember-having-a-discussion-with-kaz_727693.jpg)
