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Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.
- Denham, Sir John
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Best Quotes about Translation

1.
Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information -- hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.
Benjamin, Walter

2.
Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language.
Woolf, Virginia

3.
Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing. It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.
Mathews, Harry

4.
The test of a given phrase would be: Is it worthy to be immortal? To make a beeline for something. That's worthy of being immortal and is immortal in English idiom. I guess I'll split is not going to be immortal and is excludable, therefore excluded.
Fitzgerald, Robert

5.
To translate, one must have a style of his own, for otherwise the translation will have no rhythm or nuance, which come from the process of artistically thinking through and molding the sentences; they cannot be reconstituted by piecemeal imitation. The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author.
Goodman, Paul

6.
There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.
Hamilton, Edith

7.
It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and odor, as seek to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet. The plant must spring again from its seed, or it will bear no flower -- and this is the burthen of the curse of Babel.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe

8.
I do not hesitate to read all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable -- any real insight or broad human sentiment.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

9.
The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry.
Sciascia, Leonardo

10.
As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
Pasternak, Boris

11.
God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
Donne, John

12.
Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.
Denham, Sir John

13.
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else. What is the other text, the original? I have no answer. I suppose it is the source, the deep sea where ideas swim, and one catches them in nets of words and swings them shining into the boat... where in this metaphor they die and get canned and eaten in sandwiches.
Guin, Ursula K. Le

14.
Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.
Voltaire

15.
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
Pound, Ezra


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