Expression Quote by Peter Newmark

There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try,…

— Edith Hamilton

A satisfactory translation is not always possible, but a good translator is never satisfied with it. It can usually be improved. (Newmark)

— Peter Newmark

Sometimes it can be difficult when you're talking to a journo after the game, saying, 'Yeah mate, I was on the burst.' And then…

— Nick Cummins

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

Thomas Teal, a luminous translator of Jansson's twin talent for surface and depth, simplicity and reverberation in language, and someone who knows exactly how…

— Ali Smith

It's important to get a translator who will ask the questions in a sensitive and thoughtful way. Knowing the ethnicity issues, the tribal issues…

— Peter Menzel

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

Even a poor translator couldn't kill a style that moves with such narrative clarity.

— William Zinsser

A poet is the translator of the silent language of nature to the world.

— Rufus Wilmot Griswold

I think that being an editor, someone who works with words, is very good training for being a translator because it trains you to…

— Ann Goldstein

the translator, a lonely sort of acrobat, becomes confused in a labyrinth of paradox, or climbs a pyramid of dependent clauses and has to…

— Lydia Davis

Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.

— Alexander Pushkin