Gregory Rabassa Quotes
- A translation can never equal the original; it can approach it, and its quality can only be judged as to accuracy by how close it…
- A translator is essentially a reader and we all read differently, except that a translator's reading remains in unchanging print
- I have always maintained that translation is essentially the closest reading one can possibly give a text. The translator cannot ignore "lesser" words, but must…
- Translation is a disturbing craft because there is precious little certainty about what we are doing, which makes it so difficult in this age of…
- Every act of communication is an act of translation.