Interpretation Quote by Robert Frost Download Open image “Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.” — Robert Frost ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Interpretation Lost Lost in translation Poetry Poetry is Translations
You've often heard me say - perhaps too often - that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing. — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate. — John Denham Copy Share Image
Even if great poetry continues to be written, it has retreated from the center of literary life. Though supported by a loyal coterie, poetry… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working when you get up in the morning, and doesn't stop until you get to the… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“The promising young poets, the hopefuls? I'd name Richard Wilbur, Peter Viereck, Karl Shapiro, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, John Ciardi...Leonard Bacon...but it is still… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Lord, I have loved Your sky, Be it said against or for me, Have loved it clear and high, Or low and stormy... — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But now the theory goes That the apple's a rose, And the pear is,… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
What an exciting age it is we live in With all this talk about the hope of youth And nothing made of youth. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean? — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
“The characteristics of this kind of reading are perhaps summed up in the word “orthodox,” which is almost always applicable. The word comes from… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
“There is no growth without risk. There is always something to be gained from any experience. It is up to us to interpret our… — Truth Devour Copy Share Image
If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
The person viewing your work has no idea what the scene really looked like, nor do they care. — Mike Svob Copy Share Image
“No algorithm exists for the metaphor, nor can a metaphor be produced by means of a computer’s precise instructions, no matter what the volume… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation. — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
Apparently, I'm the angriest man. I don't know. It's just an interpretation. If it was someone else, they might be called focused or competitive.… — Alun Wyn Jones Copy Share Image
I don't analyze what I'm doing. I've read convincing interpretations of my work, and sometimes I've noticed something that I wasn't aware of, but… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
The attitude of the actor is his interpretation of what he reads, and the written word is what creates the role in the actor's… — Gene Barry Copy Share Image
You may not understand your parents' interpretation of love and what they think is best for you, but you have to trust it. — Jovan Adepo Copy Share Image
