Book Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Literary translation is not merely an act of picking words from one language and keeping it by dipping in the vessel of another language.…

— Suman Pokhrel

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

— Robert Frost

When you speak a new language you must see if you can translate all of the poetry of your old language into the new…

— Dana Scott

You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was…

— Samuel Johnson

When a translator translates my book, it is no longer just my book. It is the translator's book, too. So the book in another…

— Sam Lipsyte

“Some poems survive it to become poems in another language,” he argued, “but others refuse to live in any language but their own, in…

— Pablo Neruda

Poetry is that which is lost in translation.

— Laurence J. Peter

“trying to translate into a language that's known a poem writ in the language of stone”

— Kenneth White

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

— Robert Frost

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 is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.

— John Denham

Language may die at the hands of the schoolman: it is regenerated by the poets

— Anonymous