English writing Quote by Simone Muench

I feel my poetry has contributed through all these languages that I needed to learn leading up to English.

— Masiela Lusha

Translated poetry filled the no-man's-land between my own work and other writers', and I found this fascinating to explore.

— Edwin Morgan

The writing I do makes great demands on translators.

— W. G. Sebald

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

I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind…

— Paul Auster

I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.

— Jack Prelutsky

Everyone wants to be open and inclusive, but nobody wants to pay for it. It's the biggest roadblock to translating living writers, especially poets.

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.

— Marilyn Hacker

I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.

— Nancy Mitford

If I were assigned poems I suppose I'd write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the most part ignored in…

— Thomas Lynch

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

We're trying to make something that lasts in language and there's no question that many fiction writers began as poets and it's hard for…

— Edward Hirsch