Giving Quote by 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

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

— Joseph Brodsky

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

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

— Voltaire

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

Rhythms and sounds are often the first thing I hear and want in a poem, so I can't imagine trying to translate something without…

— Joan Larkin

I have always maintained that translation is essentially the closest reading one can possibly give a text. The translator cannot ignore "lesser" words, but…

— Gregory Rabassa

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

Poetry cannot be translation

— Samuel Johnson

I am not one of those translators who think that working closely with the writer will yield the best translation.

— Adam Morris

“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

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

— Genesis P-Orridge