Accuracy Quote by Gregory Rabassa

In its happiest efforts, translation is but approximation, and its efforts are not often happy. A translation may be good as translation, but it…

— George Henry Lewes

Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that a translation…

— Lydia Davis

“It is the nature of languages that a pretty translation is not accurate, and an accurate translation finds its own beauty without help.”

— Fraus-Dolus

True translation is transparent: it does not obscure the original, does not stand in its light, but rather allows pure language, as if strengthened…

— Walter Benjamin

“Intrinsic to the concept of a translator's fidelity to the effect and impact of the original is making the second version of the work…

— Edith Grossman

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I believe every translation is a process in which something is lost in the original precisely so that something is gained in the new…

— Agustin Fernandez Mallo

I don't think that someone who does not speak the original language can ever expect to produce a real translation.

— Christian Wiman

When we translate, we always to some extent betray the text we are translating. That is why translation is so hard and thankless. All…

— Jay L. Garfield

“Translation can never do more than the approximate,so we shall, at least, be gloriously inaccurate.”

— Karen Healey

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

The existence of another, competing translation is a good thing, in general, and only immediately discouraging to one person - the translator who, after…

— Lydia Davis