Creation Quote by Walter Benjamin

It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in…

— Pablo Picasso

“Do as you like, a minimal maxim, an old favorite of mine, so exalting and at the same time so difficult as a Rabelesian…

— Julián Ríos

I have always maintained that translation is essentially the closest reading one can possibly give a text. The translator cannot ignore "lesser" words, but…

— Gregory Rabassa

I think every translator would tell you that when they look back at a poem they have translated, they want to pencil in changes.…

— Jesse Lee Kercheval

Thomas Teal, a luminous translator of Jansson's twin talent for surface and depth, simplicity and reverberation in language, and someone who knows exactly how…

— Ali Smith

It's important to get a translator who will ask the questions in a sensitive and thoughtful way. Knowing the ethnicity issues, the tribal issues…

— Peter Menzel

It seems more than likely that the translating of poetry is going to rub off on the translator if he or she is a…

— Ron Padgett

Even a poor translator couldn't kill a style that moves with such narrative clarity.

— William Zinsser

A poet is the translator of the silent language of nature to the world.

— Rufus Wilmot Griswold

I think that being an editor, someone who works with words, is very good training for being a translator because it trains you to…

— Ann Goldstein

the translator, a lonely sort of acrobat, becomes confused in a labyrinth of paradox, or climbs a pyramid of dependent clauses and has to…

— Lydia Davis

Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.

— Alexander Pushkin