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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

— Ezra Pound

“There is no better recreation for the mind than the study of the ancient classics. Take any one of them into your hand, be…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated

— C. S. Lewis

“Only an obstinate prejudice about this period (which I will presently try to account for) could blind us to a certain change which comes…

— C.S. Lewis

I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite the heroic…

— Michael Cunningham

Any period is fascinating: the more ancient, the better.

— Ridley Scott

The translators of the Bible were masters of an English style much fitter for that work than any we see in our present writings;…

— Jonathan Swift

“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.”

— René Descartes

True to their history, the English are very domineering and have manipulated it in different ways. I wouldn't say that there was an original,…

— Marina Warner

“What do we ever get nowadays from reading to equal the excitement and the revelation in those first fourteen years?”

— Graham Greene

After all, that's why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people's lives and traditions, just…

— Michelle Moran

“life in western Europe in 1500 was very different from what it had been even 50 years earlier.”

— Phyllis Goldstein