Quote by Leonardo Sciascia Download Open image ““Translation is the other side of a tapestry.”” — Leonardo Sciascia ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry. — Leonardo Sciascia Copy Share Image
“[reading a work in translation] is like viewing a piece of Flemish tapestry on the wrong side.” — Cervantes Copy Share Image
“You know the opinion of Cervantes? He said that reading a translation is like examining the back of a piece of tapestry.” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Now is the time to enliven, ennoble and enrich your life's tapestry.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
“I could feel my attachment to the scene receding as I began to realize that everything was perfect and going according to plan in… — Anita Moorjani Copy Share Image
“The tapestry of her life was a work of art created not with a needle but with duty, courage, and honor, sprinkled liberally with… — Karen Ranney Copy Share Image
“translations are like wives—either beautiful or faithful, seldom both.” — Raymond Ibrahim Copy Share Image
“I may just be one shade of one color of one strand, but I'm part of an elaborate tapestry that goes beyond my perception.” — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
“Fragments of a vessel which are to be glued together must match one another in the smallest details, although they need not be like… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Remember that writing is translation, and the opus to be translated is yourself.” — E.B. White Copy Share Image
A sort of melancholy, and regret, seizes us every time we meet a sophisticated, adulterated idiot. Oh the nice fools of yestertime! Genuine, natural.… — Leonardo Sciascia Copy Share Image
“…And the sound of the sea, like the wild-animal breath of the world itself, frightened them as it gasped and died at their feet.” — Leonardo Sciascia Copy Share Image
“il brigadiere cominciò a fare il suo lavoro di osservazione, in funzione del rapporto scritto che gli toccava poi fare: compito piuttosto ingrato sempre,… — Leonardo Sciascia Copy Share Image
I hate and detest Sicily in so far as I love it, and in so far as it does not respond to the kind… — Leonardo Sciascia Copy Share Image
“The only institution in the Sicilian conscience that really counts is the family; counts, that is to say, more as a dramatic juridical contract… — Leonardo Sciascia Copy Share Image
“Scientists say that the palm tree line, that is the climate suitable to growth of the palm, is moving north, five hundred metres, I… — Leonardo Sciascia Copy Share Image
“The Sicilian language is the only one in Europe that has no future tense. The island’s bitter legacy of conquest and revolt seems to… — Leonardo Sciascia Copy Share Image
“There's a proverb, a maxim, that runs, 'The dead man is dead; let's give a hand to the living.' Now, you say that to… — Leonardo Sciascia Copy Share Image
The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry. — Leonardo Sciascia Copy Share Image
The truth is at the bottom of a well. You look in a well, and you see the sun or the moon, but if… — Leonardo Sciascia Copy Share Image
