Communication Quote by Hans-Georg Gadamer

“Translation work involves knowing not just the structure of the language to be translated, but the cultural framework that surrounds it.”

— Corinne McKay

Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing… It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act…

— Harry Mathews

Translators have to prove to themselves as to others that they are in control of what they do; that they do not just translate…

— Mona Baker

The practice of translation rests on two presuppositions. The first is that we are all different: we speak different tongues, and see the world…

— David Bellos

Translation is a disturbing craft because there is precious little certainty about what we are doing, which makes it so difficult in this age…

— Gregory Rabassa

Every act of communication is an act of translation.

— Gregory Rabassa

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 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

Translation is a two-edged instrument: it has the special purpose of demonstrating the learner's knowledge of the foreign language, either as a form of…

— Peter Newmark

When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Through the act of translation we break out of linguistic confinement and reach many other communities.

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

“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