Function Quote by Walter Benjamin

Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that a translation…

— Lydia Davis

When we translate, we always to some extent betray the text we are translating. That is why translation is so hard and thankless. All…

— Jay L. Garfield

“Virtually anything can be translated—“X cannot be translated” usually means nothing more exciting than “We have a word, X, that you need three or…

— Robert Lane Greene

Nothing in a language is less translatable than its modes of understatement.

— George Steiner

Every act of communication is an act of translation.

— Gregory Rabassa

Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes.

— Gunter Grass

I believe every translation is a process in which something is lost in the original precisely so that something is gained in the new…

— Agustin Fernandez Mallo

“A translator, caught in the space between two tongues. Such people tend to come a little bit unglued from the task of trying to…

— Elena Mauli Shapiro

All language is but a poor translation.

— Franz Kafka

A translation can never equal the original; it can approach it, and its quality can only be judged as to accuracy by how close…

— Gregory Rabassa

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.

— Patrick Rothfuss