Absolute Quote by Genesis P-Orridge

It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?

— Voltaire

Rhythms and sounds are often the first thing I hear and want in a poem, so I can't imagine trying to translate something without…

— Joan Larkin

It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

— Voltaire

Poetry cannot be translation

— Samuel Johnson

Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation.

— Joseph Brodsky

A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

— John Millington Synge

Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

— Jim Harrison

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

— Joseph Brodsky

Poetry is meant to be heard.

— Mary Oliver

A translation is no translation unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

— John Millington Synge

“Poetry is the way that we transcend language through language. And thus our freedom lies in the poetry of all things”

— Ilyas Kassam

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