Translation Quote by Cervantes Download Open image ““[reading a work in translation] is like viewing a piece of Flemish tapestry on the wrong side.”” — Cervantes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Flemish Tapestry Reading Work Tapestry Wrong Translation Translation Like Viewing Piece
“You know the opinion of Cervantes? He said that reading a translation is like examining the back of a piece of tapestry.” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry. — Leonardo Sciascia Copy Share Image
Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
“My goal is to act as a faithful interpreter, preserving as much of the original's nuances of meaning as possible without embellishment or omission. Yet a translator must also balance fidelity to the source, aptness of expression, and beauty of style. The best translations into English do not, in fact, read as if they were originally written in English. The… — Ken Liu Copy Share
“Translation work involves knowing not just the structure of the language to be translated, but the cultural framework that surrounds it.” — Corinne McKay Copy Share Image
“it is better to have red a great work of another culture in translation than never to have read it at all.” — Henry Gratton Doyle Copy Share Image
“Remember that writing is translation, and the opus to be translated is yourself.” — E.B. White Copy Share Image
“Literary translation is not merely an act of picking words from one language and keeping it by dipping in the vessel of another language.… — Suman Pokhrel Copy Share Image
“translations are like wives—either beautiful or faithful, seldom both.” — Raymond Ibrahim Copy Share Image
“It is natural for a translator to be prejudiced in favour of his adopted work. More impartial readers may not be so much struck… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“What makes thou there, thou fierce, thou cruel basilisk of these mountains! comes thou to see whether the wounds of this murdered wretch will… — Cervantes Copy Share Image
“I come not, Ambrosia for any of the purposes thou hast named," replied Marcela, "but to defend myself and to prove how unreasonable are… — Cervantes Copy Share Image
“Poetry is like an innocent young maiden who is extremely beautiful, and whom many other maidens, who are the other fields of knowledge, are… — Cervantes Copy Share Image
“Donde una puerta se cierra, otra se abre "Where a door is closed, another is opened" ~ Don Quixote de la Mancha” — Cervantes Copy Share Image
If you've got some to say to Ric Flair, you come say it to me, and I'll make the translation. — Roddy Piper Copy Share Image
Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have corrupted our… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Translating is a respectable, valuable, creative and worthwhile use of a human brain. — David Bellos Copy Share Image
“My goal is to act as a faithful interpreter, preserving as much of the original's nuances of meaning as possible without embellishment or omission.… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
If a translation doesn't have obvious writing problems, it may seem quite all right at first glance. We readers, after all, quickly adapt to… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of location, the… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
In English, there is one word for sister. In Chinese, there are two separate words, for elder and younger sister. This is actually a… — Andrew Ng Copy Share Image
“The French expression 'cul-de-sac' describes what the Baudelaire orphans found when they reached the end of the dark hallway, and like all French expressions,… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
I feel French is very close to Urdu. Both languages are beautiful. Sadly, their beauty is lost in translation. — Amisha Patel Copy Share Image
'Lost in Translation' was a year of my life, if not more, and then 'Marie Antoinette' was about three years of my life. — Brian Reitzell Copy Share Image