Ifs Quote by Dana Scott

“Some poems survive it to become poems in another language,” he argued, “but others refuse to live in any language but their own, in…

— Pablo Neruda

Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn…

— Samuel Johnson

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

— Joseph Brodsky

Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of…

— Marilyn Hacker

The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry.

— Michael Helm

I feel my poetry has contributed through all these languages that I needed to learn leading up to English.

— Masiela Lusha

There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.

— Robert Fitzgerald

I have poetry in my soul but it's written in a language very few understand.

— @efiosiugbore

The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.

— Robert Bly

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

— Robert Frost

poetry is where the language is renewed.

— Margaret Atwood

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

— T. S. Eliot