Creation Quote by Joseph Brodsky

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

“The word 'translation' comes, etymologically, from the Latin for 'bearing across'. Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally…

— Salman Rushdie

Things can be translated, but they become different.

— Amos Oz

Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately,…

— Salman Rushdie

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

“An ideal translation should, I believe, reproduce the effect of the original, but I have found that the best any translator can even hope…

— Harold G. Henderson

The existence of another, competing translation is a good thing, in general, and only immediately discouraging to one person - the translator who, after…

— Lydia Davis

“The essence of things is lost in translation, as love and understanding are lost in expectation.”

— Meeta Ahluwalia

I don't think that someone who does not speak the original language can ever expect to produce a real translation.

— Christian Wiman

A translation can never equal the original; it can approach it, and its quality can only be judged as to accuracy by how close…

— Gregory Rabassa

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

Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes.

— Gunter Grass