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Every act of communication is an act of translation. — Gregory Rabassa
The sound of the rain needs no translation. In music one doesn't make the end of the composition the point of the composition... Same way… — Alan Watts
Where words can be translated into equivalent words, the style of an original can be closely followed; but no translation which aims at being written… — Gilbert Murray
Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a… — Samuel Johnson
Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing.... It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving… — Harry Mathews
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
All the translations of a poem in all possible languages may add nuance to nuance and, by a kind of mutual retouching, by correcting one… — Henri Bergson
Poetry is what is gained in translation. — Joseph Brodsky
Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth's four volume Haiku became especially popular at this time [1950's] because his translations were based on the assumption that the… — Reginald Horace Blyth
Regarding R. H. Blyth: For translations, the best books are still those by R. H. Blyth. . . . — Reginald Horace Blyth
Regarding R. H. Blyth: The first book in English based on the saijiki is R. H. Blyth's Haiku, published in four volumes from 1949 to… — Reginald Horace Blyth
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

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