Quotes about Literature in translation

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Cosmos is God, who whispered the syllable of life. — Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always — William H. Gass, Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation
… I don't know what to say.'‘That’s okay. Sometimes talking is like singing in a storm.’‘Like when you’re scared?’‘Exact — Élise Turcotte, Guyana
Now I could appreciate the merits of a broad, poetical, powerful interpretation, or rather it was to this that those epi — Marcel Proust
For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable — Edith Grossman