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Pictures rule, but words define, explain, express, direct, and hold together our thoughts and what we know.
Don Watson
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Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes.
Gunter Grass
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Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.
Victor Hugo
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A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The original language of Christianity is translation.
Lamin Sanneh
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In art as in life, some things need no translation.
Paula Vogel
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The translation called good has original value as a work of art.
Benedetto Croce
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Whatever your Bible translation is, it stands on the shoulders of one man - William Tyndale.
Steven J Lawson
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All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.
Patrick Rothfuss
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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.
Judith Thurman
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Regarding R. H. Blyth: For translations, the best books are still those by R. H. Blyth. . . .
Reginald Horace Blyth
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The goal of Bible translation is: be transparent to the original text - to see as clearly as possible what the biblical authors actually wrote.
Leland Ryken
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Cómo se acuerda con los pájaros la traducción de sus idiomas?
Pablo Neruda
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One of the others shouted a translation: "The beautiful couple is beautiful.
John Green
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I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.
Paul Auster
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Good translations are one of the vital necessities of our time.
Lucas Leiva
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A satisfactory translation is not always possible, but a good translator is never satisfied with it. It can usually be improved. (Newmark)
Peter Newmark
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I don't know what exactly the translation is but when we do consume something now, something else has to give at some point.
Dan Ariely
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Something may have been lost in translation, but it certainly wasn't love
Erich Segal
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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.
Agustin Fernandez Mallo
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A translation is no translation unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.
John Millington Synge
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Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)
Blaise Pascal
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I am not one of those translators who think that working closely with the writer will yield the best translation.
Adam Morris
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By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.
Brian Ferneyhough
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
Manuel Puig
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For me, every translation is a new book, with the translator inevitably broadening the meaning of the original book in any translation.
Agustin Fernandez Mallo
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There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.
Walter Benjamin
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Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.
John Denham