Heard Quote by Robert Frost

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

— Robert Frost

Poetry is that which is lost in translation.

— Laurence J. Peter

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

— Robert Frost

I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.

— Robert Frost

“The essence of things is lost in translation, as love and understanding are lost in expectation.”

— Meeta Ahluwalia

The poem is a form of texting... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a way of…

— Carol Ann Duffy

All the translations of a poem in all possible languages may add nuance to nuance and, by a kind of mutual retouching, by correcting…

— Henri Bergson

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

“Lost, is it, buried? One more missing piece? But nothing's lost. Or else: all is translation And every bit of us is lost in…

— James Merrill

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

Sometimes only poetry can say it. I think there's just this deeper language, and away of putting your world back together again and breaking…

— Laura Nyro

What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course…

— T. S. Eliot