Accomplish Quote by Wilhelm von Humboldt

All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.

— Benjamin Jowett

Translation is a disturbing craft because there is precious little certainty about what we are doing, which makes it so difficult in this age…

— Gregory Rabassa

Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes.

— Gunter Grass

The problem is that it is difficult to translate.

— Elfriede Jelinek

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

Translating is writing.

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It can bum you out when your intentions aren't, like, translated properly.

— Kesha

“To translate a text is to be conducted into its mysteries in a way that no mere act of reading—however conscientious or frequent—makes possible.…

— David Bentley Hart

It's one of the hardest things to translate anything that's not standard.

— Ann Goldstein

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer