Language Quote by Leonardo Sciascia

“Translation is the other side of a tapestry.”

— Leonardo Sciascia

“You know the opinion of Cervantes? He said that reading a translation is like examining the back of a piece of tapestry.”

— Carl Sagan

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

— Cervantes

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

— Jorge Amado

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

— Lucas Leiva

I am not one of those translators who think that working closely with the writer will yield the best translation.

— Adam Morris

A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

— John Millington Synge

Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet…

— Miguel de Cervantes

“translations are like wives—either beautiful or faithful, seldom both.”

— Raymond Ibrahim

The greatest pleasure in translating is precisely this feeling of spiritual closeness and spiritual merging with the translated author. Moreover this spiritual relation is…

— Ventseslav Konstantinov

“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

A translation is no translation unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

— John Millington Synge