Creativity Quote by Walter Benjamin

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

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

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

“My goal is to act as a faithful interpreter, preserving as much of the original's nuances of meaning as possible without embellishment or omission.…

— Ken Liu

“Intrinsic to the concept of a translator's fidelity to the effect and impact of the original is making the second version of the work…

— Edith Grossman

Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

— Christian Wiman

In its happiest efforts, translation is but approximation, and its efforts are not often happy. A translation may be good as translation, but it…

— George Henry Lewes

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

— Anthony Burgess

“An ideal translation should, I believe, reproduce the effect of the original, but I have found that the best any translator can even hope…

— Harold G. Henderson

Things can be translated, but they become different.

— Amos Oz

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

— Ventseslav Konstantinov