Quotes about Translation

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...literary translators are the interpreters of human values - and the true peacemakers. — Margaret Obank
A translation is no translation,’ he said, ‘unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it. — John Millington Synge
Who can say if the thoughts you have in your mind as you read these words are the same thoughts I had in my mind as I ty — Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
Life is a series of events and sensations. Everything else is interpretation. Much is lost in translation and added in a — Rasheed Ogunlaru
The Buddhas speak the wondrous sound throughout the world — the Teachings spoken over countless ages can all be expounded in a single word.
It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description. — Alan W. Watts
Since language produces meaning within an enclosed system, there is always a built-in untranslatability, which national — Minae Mizumura, The Fall of Language in the Age of English
From this we conclude, that, to live in harmony and peace…we must trace a line of distinction between those (assertions) — Constantin-François Volney, The Ruins of Empires
I remember clearly the afternoon that she stood at the corner beside the door of the tourist centre in Gdansk. — You Jin, In Time, Out of Place
The four of us got back into the car. In an instant, I distinctly heard a “soundless music”. It was the melody of friend — You Jin, In Time, Out of Place
Pak Karman hugged his wife’s gravestone tightly. “You left without saying farewell!” The whole of the graveyard was abla — Mohamed Latiff Mohamed, The Widower
They will try to ascribe a purpose to my death, as though it were a punishment, but don’t you do so, in order that I con — Mohamed Latiff Mohamed, The Widower
I think, therefore I am. My fingers that caress these rose and frangipani petals are a result of my thoughts. I feel con — Mohamed Latiff Mohamed, The Widower
His wife had also studied art in her hometown, and she could paint, but depending on such work for her livelihood was ju — Chew Kok Chang, Other Cities, Other Lives
Translation error is compounded by bias error. We distort others by forcing into them our preferred ideas and gestalts, — Irvin D. Yalom, Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
Thinking is translating 'prosaic-ideas' without accessories" since ideas (in brain) do not follow any metrical compositi — Md. Ziaul Haque
In your opinion, where do private and political life, personal history and History meet? You know the answer, Maya. You — Abdourahman A. Waberi
It is naive to suppose that something that has been expressed in one form can be expressed in another without significan — Neil Postman
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