Poet Quote by Ron Padgett

“It is safe to say that poetry cannot be translated.”

— Leon Ma. Guerrero

Poetry cannot be translation

— Samuel Johnson

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

— Robert Frost

I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to us that…

— Joan Larkin

There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.

— Robert Fitzgerald

Poetry is that which is lost in translation.

— Laurence J. Peter

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

“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

It is only logical for the translator to become a part of the world of the author.

— Ventseslav Konstantinov

“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

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

Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.

— James Buchan