Art Quote by Joseph Brodsky

“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

Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.

— Paul Gauguin

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

To translate, one must have a style of his own, for the translation will have no rhythm or nuance, which come from the process…

— Paul Goodman

Poetry cannot be translation

— Samuel Johnson

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

— Joseph Brodsky

Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains…

— Hannah Arendt

In art as in life, some things need no translation.

— Paula Vogel

“The thing that makes poetry different from all other arts [is that] you're using language, which is what you use for everything else--telling lies…

— W.S. Merwin

“Some poems survive it to become poems in another language,” he argued, “but others refuse to live in any language but their own, in…

— Pablo Neruda

Poetry is that which is lost in translation.

— Laurence J. Peter

Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.

— Theophile Gautier