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The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry. — Leonardo Sciascia
The gift of language is the single human trait that marks us all genetically, setting us apart from the rest of life. — Lewis Thomas
A national language is a band of national union. — Noah Webster
It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent. — Virginia Woolf
Opens up a whole new view of Beckett. The strong mutual attraction between Beckett and Cunard may help explain the leftist political views he expressed… — Barney Rosset
Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin to committing an… — Lawrence Venuti
Dreaming and hoping won't produce a piece of work; only writing, rewriting and rewriting (if necessary)- a devoted translation of thoughts and dreams into words… — Roberta Gellis
Like her friend and admirer Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst was a passionate explorer of the sacred and the profane, the pure and the obscene, and… — Benjamin Moser
The magic gets lost in translation. — Richard Roeper
With the myriad of new Bible translations on the market today, few stand out. The ESV is one of the few, and surpasses the others… — Daniel B. Wallace
Say that again, Commonwealth whit? (translation: what?) I'm no used tae hearing that. — Charlie Flynn
Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image. — Herbert Bayer
The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception. All you can do is play melody. No matter how complicated it gets, it's… — Stan Getz
If the work of the city is the remaking or translating of man into a more suitable form than his nomadic ancestors achieved, then might… — Marshall McLuhan
Translators have to prove to themselves as to others that they are in control of what they do; that they do not just translate well… — Unknown Author
A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful. — Plato
It is part of the business of marketing to muddy the distinction between altruism and cynicism. — Don Watson
Pictures rule, but words define, explain, express, direct, and hold together our thoughts and what we know. — Don Watson
Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. — Anthony Burgess
Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing, in order to locate what is unique and inexpressible… — Henri Bergson
It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when… — Fredrik Bajer
Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how to live: the… — Anne Michaels
The Haitians, who knew something about suffering and survival, had a beautiful phrase... The Translation is not perfect, but the nut of it was: 'The… — Rick Bragg
Christopher Lynch has made the best and the first careful translation of Machiavelli's Art of War. With useful notes, an excellent introduction, an interpretive essay,… — Harvey Mansfield
That's a waste of time. If you really understand Zen... you can use any book. You could use the Bible. You could use Alice in… — Alan Watts

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