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Polly Findlay showed real insight and imagination in her production of my translation of Seneca's Thyestes at the Arcola. I enjoyed her use of the… — Caryl Churchill
In my writing, I strive for a lyrical beauty somewhere between Tolkien at his best and Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf — Christopher Paolini
Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes. — Gunter Grass
Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is a rather rough… — Michael Cunningham
And after I started working for the Bureau, most of my translation duties included translations of documents and investigations that actually started way before 9/11. — Sibel Edmonds
The Venus Project is a translation of all religions: The end of war, the end of poverty, the brotherhood of humanity. Â If that isn't… — Jacque Fresco
Fidelity to meaning alone in translation is a kind of betrayal. — Paul Valery
For the version of this CD released in Japan, a translation of the English lyrics is included, but there are lots of places where meanings… — Utada Hikaru
The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their… — Utada Hikaru
Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a brocade- all the… — Okakura Kakuzo
Thanks to the ongoing support of the Government of Ontario, RHF, in partnership with the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation, has galvanized Ontario’s best researchers, clinicians and… — Rick Hansen
The Bible is still the only dirty book I've ever read, at least in its current incarnation as a weapon of the homophobes. Bible scholarship… — Paul Monette
The first rule of translation: make sure you know at least one of the bloody languages! — Faiz Ahmad Faiz
True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak. — Eliot Weinberger
It was real Cheyenne. I would get the translations the night before, but it was very difficult because it was not like any other language… — Joe Lando
This word "description" may be disconcerting when used to refer to what is generally called a translation. But when one wishes to render a verbal… — Gaston Bachelard
Good translations are one of the vital necessities of our time. — Unknown Author
The Christian "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation,… — C.S. Lewis
A massive and brilliant accomplishment--the first English translation of the original Grimm brothers' fairy tales. The plain telling is that much more forceful for its… — Donna Jo Napoli
THE WORLD OF YESTERDAY is ostensibly an autobiography but in truth it is much more than that. In this remarkably fine new translation, Anthea Bell… — Ronald Harwood
Structure is translation software for your imagination. — James Scott Bell
Photography speaks a universal language that does not need translation, and with an immediacy that the written word lacks. It freezes a moment in time,… — Bianca Jagger
Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. — Robert Frost
The practice of translation rests on two presuppositions. The first is that we are all different: we speak different tongues, and see the world in… — David Bellos

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