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The fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration. To keep to one version or one translation alone is to put robin… — Philip Pullman
All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect. — Patrick Rothfuss
I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation. — Robert Frost
It skims in through the eye, and by means of the utterly delicate retina hurls shadows like insect legs inward for translation. Then an immense… — John Updike
Of course we may have any number of translations of a given text - the more the better, really. — Lydia Davis
The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are… — Edwin Booth
Wherever modern translations of marked excellence were already in existence efforts were made to secure them for the Library, but in a number of instances… — James Loeb
What's wonderful is to read the different translations - some done in 1600 and some in 1900 - of the same passage. It's fascinating to… — Martin C Smith
Other translations may engage the mind, but the King James Version is the Bible of the heart. — Unknown Author

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