Able Quote by Joan Larkin

It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?

— Voltaire

You have an absolute right to translate poetry in any form with any sound. It's all up for grabs.

— Genesis P-Orridge

A translation is no translation unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

— John Millington Synge

A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

— John Millington Synge

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

In poetry I can let the language go, allow an image that seems out of place to enter and see what happens, always listening…

— Pattiann Rogers

There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and…

— Gary Ross

Honestly, I can't understand English poetry. Because I am not an English speaker, when I read it I never know how to read it…

— Jenova Chen

“In translation of poetry; there exists a possibility of components like imagination, art of wordplay, skill of constructing internal rhythm and expand of knowledge…

— Suman Pokhrel

The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.

— James Fenton

To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night.

— Grace Paley

I want the poem to be an experience - for both the listener and for myself.

— Anne Waldman