Translations famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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 -
Truth lives in the spaces between words. It defies translation.
-- Ashok K. Banker -
The translation called good has original value as a work of art.
-- Benedetto Croce -
By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.
-- Brian Ferneyhough -
Pictures rule, but words define, explain, express, direct, and hold together our thoughts and what we know.
-- Don Watson -
Something may have been lost in translation, but it certainly wasn't love
-- Erich Segal -
Every act of communication is an act of translation.
-- Gregory Rabassa -
Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes.
-- Gunter Grass -
One of the others shouted a translation: "The beautiful couple is beautiful.
-- John Green -
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
-- Jorge Luis Borges -
The original language of Christianity is translation.
-- Lamin Sanneh -
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 -
Good translations are one of the vital necessities of our time.
-- Lucas Leiva -
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?
-- Pablo Neruda -
In art as in life, some things need no translation.
-- Paula Vogel -
A satisfactory translation is not always possible, but a good translator is never satisfied with it. It can usually be improved. (Newmark)
-- Peter Newmark -
Regarding R. H. Blyth: For translations, the best books are still those by R. H. Blyth. . . .
-- Reginald Horace Blyth -
Time reveals all translation to be paraphrase.
-- Richard Howard -
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 -
I am not one of those translators who think that working closely with the writer will yield the best translation.
-- Adam Morris -
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 -
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 -
Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.
-- John Denham -
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
