Chapters Quote by Ernst Haas

In art as in life, some things need no translation.

— Paula Vogel

No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.

— Mark Twain

All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive…

— Ali Smith

No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern.

— Thomas Harrison

When you speak a new language you must see if you can translate all of the poetry of your old language into the new…

— Dana Scott

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

— Robert Frost

To have the translator be a figure in the book's presentation seems like a big thing, especially for a book that's really popular.

— Ann Goldstein

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

— T. S. Eliot

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

“In translation of poetry; there exists a possibility of components like imagination, art of wordplay, skill of constructing internal rhythm and expand of knowledge…

— Suman Pokhrel

I think there are a lot of writers who would never have an opportunity to make their work. Some presses rely heavily on the…

— Kimberly Peirce

“Entire sections of them simply cannot be translated - the characters are legible and well-known, but when put together they do not say anything…

— Neal Stephenson