Closest Quote by Gregory Rabassa

The best translations are always the ones in the language the author can't read.

— Jorge Amado

I am not one of those translators who think that working closely with the writer will yield the best translation.

— Adam Morris

Of course we may have any number of translations of a given text - the more the better, really.

— Lydia Davis

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

— John Millington Synge

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

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

I never used a translator, never thought that the journalists might not understand.

— Park Yeon-mi

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I tend to be kind of literal about translation. I think it's important to present the writer as closely as possible.

— Ann Goldstein

“To translate a text is to be conducted into its mysteries in a way that no mere act of reading—however conscientious or frequent—makes possible.…

— David Bentley Hart

“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

Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.

— Anthony Burgess