Different Quote by Marilyn Hacker

There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.

— Robert Fitzgerald

Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how to live:…

— Anne Michaels

I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to us that…

— Joan Larkin

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

— Joseph Brodsky

Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing…

— Marilyn Hacker

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

— John Millington Synge

Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

When you speak a new language you must see if you can translate all of the poetry of your old language into the new…

— Dana Scott

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

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

“Reading a poem in translation," wrote Bialek, "is like kissing a woman through a veil"; and reading Greek poems, with a mixture of katharevousa…

— Anne Michaels

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