Destiny Quote by John Denham

When we translate, we always to some extent betray the text we are translating. That is why translation is so hard and thankless. All…

— Jay L. Garfield

“Translation can never do more than the approximate,so we shall, at least, be gloriously inaccurate.”

— Karen Healey

“To translate a text is to be conducted into its mysteries in a way that no mere act of reading—however conscientious or frequent—makes possible.…

— David Bentley Hart

There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try,…

— Edith Hamilton

“All stories come from the writer's heart, and all hearts speak the same language, a wordless language ancient as time, and for the writer,…

— Stan D. Jensen

This is every writer's nightmare--the sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us...

— Dan Simmons

“Now if we rid our minds of the idea that our language is the translation or cipher of an original text, we shall see…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“All writing is an act of translation.”

— Maya Jasanoff

“The translator's task is essentially a difficult and often a thankless one. He is severely criticized if he makes a mistake, but only faintly…

— Eugene A. Nida

Translation is a disturbing craft because there is precious little certainty about what we are doing, which makes it so difficult in this age…

— Gregory Rabassa

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

— Lucas Leiva

“Words are traitors, for language tends to impose more logic than there is logic in life, and that the most precious in us is…

— Anonymous