Compromise Quote by Benjamin Jowett

I tend to be kind of literal about translation. I think it's important to present the writer as closely as possible.

— Ann Goldstein

Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.

— Anthony Burgess

All translating seems to me to be simply an attempt to accomplish an impossible task.

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

When we translate, we always to some extent betray the text we are translating. That is why translation is so hard and thankless. All…

— Jay L. Garfield

A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

In its happiest efforts, translation is but approximation, and its efforts are not often happy. A translation may be good as translation, but it…

— George Henry Lewes

Good translations are one of the vital necessities of our time.

— Lucas Leiva

It's one of the hardest things to translate anything that's not standard.

— Ann Goldstein

Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Translation presents not merely a paradigm but the utmost case of engaged literary interpretation

— John Felstiner

I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.

— Paul Auster

“To translate a text is to be conducted into its mysteries in a way that no mere act of reading—however conscientious or frequent—makes possible.…

— David Bentley Hart