Untranslatable Quotes

12 quotes by 11 authors

And you can put your total energy for the inner eye. The outside eyes are wasting eighty percent of energy - it is the major… — Rajneesh
Perfection is the exclusive attribute of God, and it is indescribable, untranslatable. I do believe that it is possible for human beings to become perfect,… — Mahatma Gandhi
Meanings are translatable. Words are untranslatableâ€¦ More briefly â€“ a word is translatable, its sound is not. — Marina Tsvetaeva
Since music is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods,… — Claude Levi-Strauss
The approach of intellect or noesis will forever be an effete and limited sort of thing by contrast with the vigor and color of gnosis;… — Kenny Smith
The history of a culture can be determined by its untranslatable words. — Salman Rushdie
I began making pictures because I wanted to record what supports hope: the untranslatable mystery and beauty of the world. Along the way, however, the… — Robert Adams
I am too not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. — Walt Whitman
There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it… — Jorge Luis Borges
Your voice is wild and simple. You are untranslatable Into any one tongue. — Anna Akhmatova
All through autumn we hear a double voice: one says everything is ripe; the other says everything is dying. The paradox is exquisite. We feel… — Gretel Ehrlich
I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable. — Walt Whitman

Who Wrote These Untranslatable Quotes

11 authors contributed a total of 12 Untranslatable Quotes as follows: