Lost Quote by Laurence J. Peter Download Open image “Poetry is that which is lost in translation.” — Laurence J. Peter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Lost Lost in translation Poetry Poetry is Translations
Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
You've often heard me say - perhaps too often - that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing. — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It seems more than likely that the translating of poetry is going to rub off on the translator if he or she is a… — Ron Padgett Copy Share Image
“Somehow something has gone wrong with poetry in our culture. We have lost touch with its purpose and value, and in doing so, we… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
You don't need to take a persons advice to make him feel good, just ask him for it. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
The surest sign that you haven't any sense is to argue with one who hasn't. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
Bore : A fellow who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
“A sense of desolation settled within me: a cold, slimy stone lodged under my lungs. There was nothing happy about the woods, I thought,… — Craig Davidson Copy Share Image
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I… — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share Image
I write about presidents. That means I write about guys - so far. I'm interested in the people closest to them, the people they… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
A lot of people have been saying 'The 100' reminds them of 'Lord Of The Flies,' 'Lost' and 'Battlestar Galactica,' and all of those… — Marie Avgeropoulos Copy Share Image
The text says Deuteronomy was lost, but you say it was written then. — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
Opportunities change, strategies change, but people and psychology do not change. If trend-following systems don’t work well, something else will. There’s always money being… — Gil Blake Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Every saved person this side of heaven owes the gospel to every lost person this side of hell. — David Platt Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
