Poetry Quote by Pablo Neruda

Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn…

— Samuel Johnson

The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic.

— William Carlos Williams

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

Poetry cannot be translation

— Samuel Johnson

“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

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 is safe to say that poetry cannot be translated.”

— Leon Ma. Guerrero

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

(...) the translator of prose is the slave of the author and the translator of poetry is his rival.

— Andreï Makine

“A true poet writes from the language and experiences of their own heart, not those of others.”

— Suzy Kassem

Poetry is that which is lost in translation.

— Laurence J. Peter