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Last updated on April 15, 2025.
Ko Un is a crucial poet for the twenty-first century, and this is an enormously fresh and vivid translation.
Whatever your Bible translation is, it stands on the shoulders of one man - William Tyndale.
Yo soy carne muerta. Translation: I am dead meat.
The clumsiest literal translation is a thousand times more useful than the prettiest paraphrase.
Translation presents not merely a paradigm but the utmost case of engaged literary interpretation
Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes.
He who reads the Bible in translation is like a man who kisses his bride through a veil.
True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.
Unfortunately, unless the job description included a translation of the prologue of The Canterbury Tales, I was dreadfully under-qualified.
I don't think that someone who does not speak the original language can ever expect to produce a real translation.
Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.
Teaching translation is more of an editing job. You act as editor. But you can have fun with it.
Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.
I am not one of those translators who think that working closely with the writer will yield the best translation.
I have nothing but wastes and wilds of self-translation before me for many miserable months to come.
Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation.
You know, they say in France that translation is like a woman: she is either beautiful or faithful.
I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to us that we wouldn't have access to.
Chinese readers are buying books in translation, particularly non-fiction about China, in large numbers.
Reading a poem in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil.
I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.
The translation of social media buzz does not really happen. Films do well through word of mouth.
Truth lives in the spaces between words. It defies translation.
God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.
A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.
Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.
The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a political will.
A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.
It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.
Air power speaks a strategic language so new that translation into the hackneyed idiom of the past is impossible.
Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter.
A satisfactory translation is not always possible, but a good translator is never satisfied with it. It can usually be improved. (Newmark)
The first rule of translation: make sure you know at least one of the bloody languages!
An object is chiral if it cannot be brought into congruence with its mirror image by translation and rotation.
We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation.
Yes, translation is by definition an inadequate substitute for being able to read a masterpiece in the original.
The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author.
Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image.
They like my books better in England than in France; a translation would be very successful there.
I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.
A translation can never equal the original; it can approach it, and its quality can only be judged as to accuracy by how close it gets.
I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
The translation called good has original value as a work of art.
The language of translation ought never to attract attention to itself.
Something may have been lost in translation, but it certainly wasn't love
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.
Through the act of translation we break out of linguistic confinement and reach many other communities.
It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.
I grew up with Mark Twain, and we had the complete Hemingway at home, of course in German translation.
Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak.
By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.
Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.
There is a insularity within American fiction even for adults. It's very tough for books in translation in the US.
What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
Say that again, Commonwealth whit? (translation: what?) I'm no used tae hearing that.
I tend to be kind of literal about translation. I think it's important to present the writer as closely as possible.
I do a lot of recipe creation. Translation: cooking tempting dishes that must be eaten.
In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.'
