Inspirational Quote by George Steiner

Meanings are translatable. Words are untranslatable… More briefly – a word is translatable, its sound is not.

— Marina Tsvetaeva

Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information-hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.

— Walter Benjamin

Language can do what it can’t say.

— William Stafford

All language is but a poor translation.

— Franz Kafka

“Virtually anything can be translated—“X cannot be translated” usually means nothing more exciting than “We have a word, X, that you need three or…

— Robert Lane Greene

Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey.

— Roman Jakobson

Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually…

— Paul de Man

There is no language without deceit.

— Italo Calvino

Language is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories.

— Kenneth Goldsmith

A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

There are times in life when language fails us, when everything that needs to be said can be expressed only by saying nothing at…

— Simon Van Booy

I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.

— Alan Rickman