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Translations Quotes

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

Authors on Translations Quotes: Agustin Fernandez Mallo John Green Umberto Eco George Henry Borrow Don Watson Steven J Lawson Dan Ariely John Millington Synge Yevgeny Yevtushenko Pablo Neruda Gregory Rabassa Blaise Pascal Lamin Sanneh Erich Segal Judith Thurman Victor Hugo Patrick Rothfuss Gunter Grass Brian Ferneyhough Manuel Puig Adam Morris Joseph Brodsky Samuel Johnson Paul Auster Kiersten White Arthur Schopenhauer Kazuo Ishiguro Benedetto Croce Lucas Leiva Reginald Horace Blyth Paula Vogel John Denham Walter Benjamin
2.
Poetry is what is gained in translation.
Joseph Brodsky

3.
Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes.
Gunter Grass

4.
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

6.
A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.
Arthur Schopenhauer

7.
Every act of communication is an act of translation.
Gregory Rabassa

8.
The original language of Christianity is translation.
Lamin Sanneh

9.
In art as in life, some things need no translation.
Paula Vogel

10.
The translation called good has original value as a work of art.
Benedetto Croce

11.
Translation is the art of failure.
Umberto Eco

12.
Translation is at best an echo.
George Henry Borrow

13.
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

15.
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

16.
Regarding R. H. Blyth: For translations, the best books are still those by R. H. Blyth. . . .
Reginald Horace Blyth

17.
Cómo se acuerda con los pájaros la traducción de sus idiomas?
Pablo Neruda

18.
One of the others shouted a translation: "The beautiful couple is beautiful.
John Green

19.
I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.
Paul Auster

20.
I want my words to survive translation.
Kazuo Ishiguro

21.
Good translations are one of the vital necessities of our time.
Lucas Leiva

22.
A satisfactory translation is not always possible, but a good translator is never satisfied with it. It can usually be improved. (Newmark)
Peter Newmark

23.
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

24.
Something may have been lost in translation, but it certainly wasn't love
Erich Segal

25.
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

26.
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

27.
A translation is no translation unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.
John Millington Synge

28.
Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)
Blaise Pascal

29.
I am not one of those translators who think that working closely with the writer will yield the best translation.
Adam Morris

30.
By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.
Brian Ferneyhough

31.
I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
Manuel Puig

32.
Poetry cannot be translation
Samuel Johnson

33.
Yo soy carne muerta. Translation: I am dead meat.
Kiersten White

34.
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

35.
Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.
John Denham

36.
There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.
Walter Benjamin

37.
Time reveals all translation to be paraphrase.
Richard Howard