Between the lines Quote by Marilyn Hacker

“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

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 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

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

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

— Joseph Brodsky

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

“When somebody discusses my work with me and peruses a poem or two, they get to see a piece of who I am. Because…

— Nicholas Trandahl

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

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

— Robert Frost

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

— Ezra Pound

Poems tend to have instructions for how to read them embedded in their language.

— Matthea Harvey