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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
Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there… — Miguel de Cervantes
They like my books better in England than in France; a translation would be very successful there. — Marcel Proust
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything… — Ursula K. Le Guin
No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose… — Herbert Spencer
I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs. — Laura Marling
When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going on in the plot, I go… — Tea Obreht
[Alternate translation:] The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian between being and… — Gottfried Leibniz
Wherever a story comes from, whether it is a familiar myth or a private memory, the retelling exemplifies the making of a connection from one… — Mary Catherine Bateson
Pictures are the idea in visual or pictorial form; and the idea has to be legible, both in the individual picture and in the collective… — Gerhard Richter
I would love mainland Chinese to read my book. There is a Chinese translation which I worked on myself, published in Hong Kong and Taiwan.… — Jung Chang
Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that a translation could… — Lydia Davis
I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite the heroic gesture… — Michael Cunningham
Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the… — Marilyn Hacker
Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself,… — Marilyn Hacker
I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one of the things… — Etgar Keret
Penning an advice column for the literary website The Rumpus, [Strayed] worked anonymously, using the pen name Sugar, replying to letters from readings suffering everything… — Leigh Newman

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