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The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is a solitary abstraction.… — William Hazlitt
Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form. — Paul Gauguin
I never read the translation before publication. The most important things for me is that the emotion is captured in such a way that the… — Karl Ove Knausgard
Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the… — Italo Calvino
The director works as an interpretive artist, but he's still an artist, so you also have to give him room to create and to put… — August Wilson
There is an inimitable grace in Virgil's words, and in them principally consists that beauty which gives so inexpressible a pleasure to him who best… — John Dryden
Poetry is what gets lost in translation. — Robert Frost
And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it. — Cornelia Funke
For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act? — Cyril Connolly
Translation is the art of failure. — Umberto Eco
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is… — Havelock Ellis
The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a political will. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan
By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow. — Brian Ferneyhough
I'd love to become like Bill Murray, who was so funny on 'Saturday Night Live' and has gone on to do some of the landmark… — Will Ferrell
I want my words to survive translation. — Kazuo Ishiguro
I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend three days being… — Kazuo Ishiguro
I don't know whether machine translation will eventually get good enough to allow us to browse people's websites in different languages so you can see… — Tim Berners-Lee
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is… — John Lennon
Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit. — Jonathan Lethem
If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream. — Rene Magritte
I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and… — Robert Morgan
To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience;… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money. — Manuel Puig
A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money… — Edward Sapir
What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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