quotes about Translations
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A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.
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Truth lives in the spaces between words. It defies translation.
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The translation called good has original value as a work of art.
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By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.
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Pictures rule, but words define, explain, express, direct, and hold together our thoughts and what we know.
-- Don WatsonSource : Don Watson (2003). “Death sentence: the decay of public language”, Alfred A. Knopf
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Something may have been lost in translation, but it certainly wasn't love
-- Erich SegalSource : Erich Segal (2014). “The Class”, p.198, Bantam
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Translation is at best an echo.
-- George Henry BorrowSource : George Henry Borrow (1851). “Lavengro: The Scholar--the Gypsy--the Priest”, p.151
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Every act of communication is an act of translation.
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Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes.
-- Gunter Grass -
One of the others shouted a translation: "The beautiful couple is beautiful.
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
-- Jorge Luis Borges -
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Poetry is what is gained in translation.
-- Joseph BrodskySource : "Raw Material by Derek Mahon - review" by Aingeal Clare, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2012.
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The original language of Christianity is translation.
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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 RykenSource : "Leland Ryken Interview Differences in Bible Translations". Christian Publishing House Interview, christianpublishinghouse.co. October 10, 2016.
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Good translations are one of the vital necessities of our time.
-- Lucas Leiva -
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
-- Manuel Puig -
Como se acuerda con los pajarosla traduccion de sus idiomas?How is the translation of their languages Arranged with the birds?
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In art as in life, some things need no translation.
-- Paula VogelSource : Paula Vogel (1992). “The Baltimore Waltz”, p.24, Dramatists Play Service Inc
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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)
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Regarding R. H. Blyth: For translations, the best books are still those by R. H. Blyth. . . .
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Time reveals all translation to be paraphrase.
-- Richard Howard -
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A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.
-- Victor Hugo -
There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.
-- Walter Benjamin -
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 -
Whatever your Bible translation is, it stands on the shoulders of one man - William Tyndale.
-- Steven J Lawson -
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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 MorrisSource : Source: therumpus.net
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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 MalloSource : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
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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 MalloSource : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
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Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.
-- John DenhamSource : Sir John Denham (1709). “Poems and Translations: With the Sophy, a Tragedy”, p.114
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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 ThurmanSource : "Ask the Author Live: Judith Thurman on Laura Ingalls Wilder". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. July 31, 2009.