Doe Quote by James Buchan

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

— Joseph Brodsky

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

Prose exists to convey meaning, and no meaning such as prose conveys can be expressed as well in poetry. That's not poetry's purpose.

— Basil Bunting

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

The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power, or those…

— Adrienne Rich

“It is safe to say that poetry cannot be translated.”

— Leon Ma. Guerrero

Poetry cannot be translation

— Samuel Johnson

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

— Ezra Pound

“Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity for our existence. It forms the quality of light from which we predicate our…

— Audre Lorde

I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to us that…

— Joan Larkin

... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we…

— Audre Lorde

Poetry makes sense of the parts of human experience that are confusing and not decodable in any other way. It makes accessible the inaccessible.

— Tavares Strachan