Add Quote by Henri Bergson

It seems more than likely that the translating of poetry is going to rub off on the translator if he or she is a…

— Ron Padgett

Poetry is that which is lost in translation.

— Laurence J. Peter

Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing…

— Marilyn Hacker

Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn…

— Samuel Johnson

Poetry cannot be translation

— Samuel Johnson

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

— Robert Frost

“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

Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how to live:…

— Anne Michaels

I think every translator would tell you that when they look back at a poem they have translated, they want to pencil in changes.…

— Jesse Lee Kercheval

You've often heard me say - perhaps too often - that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost…

— Robert Frost

“It is (according to one’s point of view) either a wonderful piece of luck or a wise provision of God’s, that poetry which was…

— C.S. Lewis

There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.

— Robert Fitzgerald