Translations Quotes

Pictures rule, but words define, explain, express, direct, and hold together our thoughts and what we know.

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes.

Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.

A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.

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

Every act of communication is an act of translation.

In art as in life, some things need no translation.

The original language of Christianity is translation.

The translation called good has original value as a work of art.

Translation is the art of failure.

Translation is at best an echo.

Whatever your Bible translation is, it stands on the shoulders of one man - William Tyndale.

Regarding R. H. Blyth: For translations, the best books are still those by R. H. Blyth. . . .

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

If you are forced to describe things for someone else, it sharpens your senses. And also your sense of how hard it is to make the translation from the vibrant, multi-faceted world to a sentence that distils it.

I want my words to survive translation.

A satisfactory translation is not always possible, but a good translator is never satisfied with it. It can usually be improved. (Newmark)

Good translations are one of the vital necessities of our time.

The goal of Bible translation is: be transparent to the original text - to see as clearly as possible what the biblical authors actually wrote.

Cómo se acuerda con los pájaros la traducción de sus idiomas?

One of the others shouted a translation: "The beautiful couple is beautiful.

I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.

I don't know what exactly the translation is but when we do consume something now, something else has to give at some point.

Something may have been lost in translation, but it certainly wasn't love

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

By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.

I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.

Poetry cannot be translation

Yo soy carne muerta. Translation: I am dead meat.

For me, every translation is a new book, with the translator inevitably broadening the meaning of the original book in any translation.

There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.

Time reveals all translation to be paraphrase.

A translation is no translation unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)

I am not one of those translators who think that working closely with the writer will yield the best translation.