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- A translator is essentially a reader and we all read differently, except that a translator's reading remains in unchanging print
- I have always maintained that translation is essentially the closest reading one can possibly give a text. The translator cannot ignore "lesser" words, but must…
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- The CIA will only hire people with impeccable credentials to be a translator. 'Impeccable credentials' means you've never lived outside the United… — Michael Bloomberg
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- There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we… — Edith Hamilton
- A translator is essentially a reader and we all read differently, except that a translator's reading remains in unchanging print — Gregory Rabassa
- I have always maintained that translation is essentially the closest reading one can possibly give a text. The translator cannot ignore "lesser"… — Gregory Rabassa
- It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent. — Virginia Woolf
- Because powerful images are fixed in the mind more readily than words, the photographer needs no interpreter. A photograph means the same… — Arthur Rothstein
- Translators have to prove to themselves as to others that they are in control of what they do; that they do not… — Unknown Author
- Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw… — John Donne
- Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how… — Anne Michaels
- Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
- The fabliau, then, is a short story that is a tall story. It combines a burly blurting of dirty words with a… — Christopher Ricks