Amor Quote by Pablo Neruda

“Como se acuerda con los pajaros la traduccion de sus idiomas? How is the translation of their languages Arranged with the birds?”

— Pablo Neruda

I wanted to know if the 'Iliad' in the original was as relevant and contemporary as it was in translation. I then started Latin.…

— Caroline Lawrence

“If you know all the languages of the world and you don't know your mother tongue or the language of your culture, that is…

— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

“But Spanish and English aren't different languages, only extreme dialects of Latin. It's almost possible to translate word for word. Translation from a language…

— Natasha Pulley

I feel French is very close to Urdu. Both languages are beautiful. Sadly, their beauty is lost in translation.

— Amisha Patel

In fact, many of the quotes in my books are quotes which were translated from English and that I read already translated into Spanish.…

— Agustin Fernandez Mallo

Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured "translation errors" could create interesting new meanings.

— Hal Duncan

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

The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and the translators…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.

— Rumi

A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of location, the…

— David Nicholls

The translation process becomes a highly subjective thing - turning reds and blues into black-and-whiteness. It's really bizarre for me.

— Robert Longo