Creation Quote by Joseph Brodsky

“The difference between a translation and an original is not of the same order as the difference between powdered and steamed coffee.”

— David Bellos

Although we know that the feeling of loss is inevitable, I want us to be sure that whatever happens we can still count on…

— Anonymous

Death is inevitable. Jesus' resurrection is inevitable, but the loss is inevitable.

— Jonathan Roumie

In life, loss is inevitable. Everyone knows this, yet in the core of most people it remains deeply denied - 'This should not happen…

— Dayananda Saraswati

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

— Joseph Brodsky

Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation; and I believe a degree of reinterpretatio n…

— David Mitchell

'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the…

— Edmund White

“ANNALS OF LANGUAGE WORD MAGIC How much really gets lost in translation? BY ADAM GOPNIK Once, in a restaurant in Italy with my family,…

— Anonymous

“Translation is the other side of a tapestry.”

— Leonardo Sciascia

The translation called good has original value as a work of art.

— Benedetto Croce

“My goal is to act as a faithful interpreter, preserving as much of the original's nuances of meaning as possible without embellishment or omission.…

— Ken Liu

“[reading a work in translation] is like viewing a piece of Flemish tapestry on the wrong side.”

— Cervantes