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 an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of…

— Marilyn Hacker

I tend to be kind of literal about translation. I think it's important to present the writer as closely as possible.

— Ann Goldstein

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the…

— Marilyn Hacker

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

— Joseph Brodsky

I think every translator would tell you that when they look back at a poem they have translated, they want to pencil in changes.…

— Jesse Lee Kercheval

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

I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.

— Robert Frost

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

— Anne Michaels

All the translations of a poem in all possible languages may add nuance to nuance and, by a kind of mutual retouching, by correcting…

— Henri Bergson

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

— Robert Frost