Poetry Quote by 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

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

“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

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

“Some poems survive it to become poems in another language,” he argued, “but others refuse to live in any language but their own, in…

— Pablo Neruda

A translation is no translation unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

— John Millington Synge

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

A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

— John Millington Synge

I've written and translated my own poems from English to German. It's basically a summation of my identity as it stands now.

— Masiela Lusha

To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodiment.

— Joseph Brodsky

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the…

— Marilyn Hacker