Four Word Quote by Robert Lane Greene

The world cannot be translated; It can only be dreamed of and touched.

— Dejan Stojanovic

A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

All translating seems to me to be simply an attempt to accomplish an impossible task.

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Translation is a disturbing craft because there is precious little certainty about what we are doing, which makes it so difficult in this age…

— Gregory Rabassa

“To translate a text is to be conducted into its mysteries in a way that no mere act of reading—however conscientious or frequent—makes possible.…

— David Bentley Hart

Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Things can be translated, but they become different.

— Amos Oz

I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.

— Paul Auster

Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.

— Anthony Burgess

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

— Benjamin Jowett

Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information-hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.

— Walter Benjamin

“There can never be an absolutely final translation.”

— Robert M. Grant