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If you are interested in Taoism, I would suggest that you read the Way of Life by Lao Tsu, the founder of Taoism. I personally… — Frederick Lenz
Poetry is what is gained in translation. — Joseph Brodsky
Like translation itself, Asymptote is a fluid web reaching out to all sides, bringing texts and readers together, through the most improbable and marvelous of… — Jonathan Littell
Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A song is like a smile. If you meet people from another country, even if you don't speak the same language, you know what a… — Clay Aiken
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world. — Gwendolyn Brooks
Time reveals all translation to be paraphrase. — Richard Howard
All nonfiction writers, whether they like it or not, are translators. The translator is the perfect journalist. The best journalism endeavors to convey an essential… — Ilan Stavans
Translation is a form of passive aggression. In doing it, a writer chooses to forgo original authorship so as to play havoc with a foreign… — Lawrence Venuti
General editors' preface The growth of translation studies as a separate discipline is a success story of the 1980s. The subject has developed in many… — Lawrence Venuti
It's impossible to make a movie out of 'Naked Lunch.' A literal translation just wouldn't work. It would cost $400 million to make and would… — David Cronenberg
Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter. One word absent from a sentence can drastically change the true intended… — Suzy Kassem
The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the… — Guillermo del Toro
I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully armed; I announce a life that shall be copious, vehement, spiritual, bold, And… — Walt Whitman
Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action. — Woodrow Wilson
Como se acuerda con los pajarosla traduccion de sus idiomas?How is the translation of their languages Arranged with the birds? — Pablo Neruda
There is no such thing as a perfect, ideal, or 'correct' translation. A translator is always trying to extend his knowledge and improve his means… — Peter Newmark
A satisfactory translation is not always possible, but a good translator is never satisfied with it. It can usually be improved. (Newmark) — Peter Newmark
Translation is a two-edged instrument: it has the special purpose of demonstrating the learner's knowledge of the foreign language, either as a form of control… — Peter Newmark
Al-Ghazali is the most important philosophical theologian of classical Islam, and Moderation in Belief is among his most important works. It sets out al-Ghazali's Ash?arite… — Peter Adamson
The goal of Bible translation is be transparent to the original text - to see as clearly as possible what the biblical authors actually wrote. — Leland Ryken
The translation called good has original value as a work of art. — Benedetto Croce
The original language of Christianity is translation. — Lamin Sanneh
If you want to feel humor too exquisite and subtle for translation, sit invisibly among a gang of Negro workers. — W. E. B. Du Bois
Its subtlest, most appealing accomplishment may be in how other characters respond to Gregorius' precipitous swerve onto the spiritual path. (...) That said, Night Train… — Michelle Huneven

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