Communication Quote by Superman

All language is but a poor translation.

— Franz Kafka

I don't think that someone who does not speak the original language can ever expect to produce a real translation.

— Christian Wiman

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

— Anthony Burgess

Things can be translated, but they become different.

— Amos Oz

We always translate the other person's language into our own language.

— Milton H. Erickson

When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Ventseslav Konstantinov

Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet…

— Miguel de Cervantes

Translating is writing.

— Marguerite Yourcenar

I never used a translator, never thought that the journalists might not understand.

— Park Yeon-mi

The barrier of communication is terrible if you don't speak the language. You cannot reach a player with a translator.

— Nuno Espirito Santo

A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him.

— Samuel Johnson