Allies Quote by Italo Calvino

Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.

— George Steiner

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

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

— Ventseslav Konstantinov

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

— Lucas Leiva

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

— Adam Morris

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

— Anthony Burgess

Translating one region's works for another region has a beauty with an inborn connect. We might speak different languages but our culture and history…

— Gulzar

“As long as human beings speak different languages, the need for translation will continue.”

— Nataly Kelly

I live in the United States for years. No one has to translate anything for me.

— Raphael Assuncao

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

— Samuel Johnson

The writing I do makes great demands on translators.

— W. G. Sebald

“If you know all the languages of the world and you don't know your mother tongue or the language of your culture, that is…

— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o