Access Quote by Joan Larkin

Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of…

— Marilyn Hacker

I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.

— Nancy Mitford

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

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

As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like…

— Boris Pasternak

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

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

— Joseph Brodsky

Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

— Ventseslav Konstantinov

Everyone wants to be open and inclusive, but nobody wants to pay for it. It's the biggest roadblock to translating living writers, especially poets.

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

“So many people consider their work a daily punishment. Whereas I love my work as a translator. Translation is a journey over a sea…

— Amara Lakhous