Change Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.

— Voltaire

Things can be translated, but they become different.

— Amos Oz

I believe every translation is a process in which something is lost in the original precisely so that something is gained in the new…

— Agustin Fernandez Mallo

Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that a translation…

— Lydia Davis

For me, every translation is a new book, with the translator inevitably broadening the meaning of the original book in any translation.

— Agustin Fernandez Mallo

The best translations are always the ones in the language the author can't read.

— Jorge Amado

Of course we may have any number of translations of a given text - the more the better, really.

— Lydia Davis

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

A satisfactory translation is not always possible, but a good translator is never satisfied with it. It can usually be improved. (Newmark)

— Peter Newmark

I think of translations as passing some scholarly smell test: you can read the words of the translation and be reasonably sure of what…

— Christian Wiman

If a translation doesn't have obvious writing problems, it may seem quite all right at first glance. We readers, after all, quickly adapt to…

— Lydia Davis

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

— Lucas Leiva