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- Translators have to prove to themselves as to others that they are in control of what they do; that they do not just translate well…
- A poet is the translator of the silent language of nature to the world.
- The most basic barrier was language itself, very few Americans in Iraq whether soldiers or diplomats or news paper reporters could speak more than a…
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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
- As a physician and as a pilot, I think it lets me be a pretty good translator having one foot in the… — David M. Brown
- 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