Foreign language Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to…

— Italo Calvino

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

The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication.

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

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

— Anthony Burgess

Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin to committing…

— Lawrence Venuti

“Translation work involves knowing not just the structure of the language to be translated, but the cultural framework that surrounds it.”

— Corinne McKay

We always translate the other person's language into our own language.

— Milton H. Erickson

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

— Ventseslav Konstantinov

Things can be translated, but they become different.

— Amos Oz

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

— Manuel Puig

I never used a translator, never thought that the journalists might not understand.

— Park Yeon-mi

Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet…

— Miguel de Cervantes