Art Quote by Suman Pokhrel

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

— Joseph Brodsky

Poetry cannot be translation

— Samuel Johnson

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

To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodiment.

— Joseph Brodsky

Poetry is that which is lost in translation.

— Laurence J. Peter

“Poetry is a language adequate to one's experience.”

— Jay Parini

“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

“Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity for our existence. It forms the quality of light from which we predicate our…

— Audre Lorde

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

Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact … the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard.

— William Carlos Williams

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

— Robert Frost

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