Fitness Quote by Derek Walcott

“Poet, teach us to love our dying.”

— Robert Kroestch

Above all, we ask the poet to teach us a way of seeing.

— Diane Ackerman

Translation is a form of passive aggression. In doing it, a writer chooses to forgo original authorship so as to play havoc with a…

— Lawrence Venuti

To translate, one must have a style of his own, for the translation will have no rhythm or nuance, which come from the process…

— Paul Goodman

The translation process becomes a highly subjective thing - turning reds and blues into black-and-whiteness. It's really bizarre for me.

— Robert Longo

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

'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

“ANNALS OF LANGUAGE WORD MAGIC How much really gets lost in translation? BY ADAM GOPNIK Once, in a restaurant in Italy with my family,…

— Anonymous

“Translation is the other side of a tapestry.”

— Leonardo Sciascia

The translation called good has original value as a work of art.

— Benedetto Croce

“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

“[reading a work in translation] is like viewing a piece of Flemish tapestry on the wrong side.”

— Cervantes