Expression Quote by Peter Newmark

All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.

— Patrick Rothfuss

In its happiest efforts, translation is but approximation, and its efforts are not often happy. A translation may be good as translation, but it…

— George Henry Lewes

A translation can never equal the original; it can approach it, and its quality can only be judged as to accuracy by how close…

— Gregory Rabassa

When we translate, we always to some extent betray the text we are translating. That is why translation is so hard and thankless. All…

— Jay L. Garfield

All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.

— Benjamin Jowett

A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him.

— Samuel Johnson

“It is the nature of languages that a pretty translation is not accurate, and an accurate translation finds its own beauty without help.”

— Fraus-Dolus

“My goal is to act as a faithful interpreter, preserving as much of the original's nuances of meaning as possible without embellishment or omission.…

— Ken Liu

Good translations are one of the vital necessities of our time.

— Lucas Leiva

I am not one of those translators who think that working closely with the writer will yield the best translation.

— Adam Morris

The best translations are always the ones in the language the author can't read.

— Jorge Amado

“The translator's task is essentially a difficult and often a thankless one. He is severely criticized if he makes a mistake, but only faintly…

— Eugene A. Nida