Age Quote by Gregory Rabassa

Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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 is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

— Anthony Burgess

Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin to committing…

— Lawrence Venuti

The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication.

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

The problem is that it is difficult to translate.

— Elfriede Jelinek

It is only logical for the translator to become a part of the world of the author.

— Ventseslav Konstantinov

“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

All translating seems to me to be simply an attempt to accomplish an impossible task.

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him.

— Samuel Johnson

Good translations are one of the vital necessities of our time.

— Lucas Leiva