Quotes by translation
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A translation of a work of literature is like playing a violin concerto on the piano.
Source: The Believer Interview 20 oct 2016 -
Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information - hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.
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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.
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Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.
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For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
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I want my words to survive translation.
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I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.
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Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.
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Poetry is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.
Source: Conversations on the Craft of Poetry (1959) -
Poetry is what is lost in translation.
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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
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Remember what the Patriarch King Solomon
Told his harem on the night they'd had a few:
Teetotalum overcoatum asqua scutum atomack
Sonata with tomoto, laringitis, cul de sac.
Translation: If your rhubarb's fallen try and bend it back.
That's a motto for the likes of me and you.Source: Mottoes line 41 -
The best translation is not that which is most like the original but which is the most different from it.
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Translation is at best an echo.
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