Translation Quotes

Translation Quote of the day

Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes.

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter.

The original language of Christianity is translation.

Translation is the art of failure.

When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. (111)

I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.

The magic gets lost in translation.

Even a poor translator couldn't kill a style that moves with such narrative clarity.

Poetry is that which is lost in translation.

I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.

Something may have been lost in translation, but it certainly wasn't love

It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.

All religions are based on obsolete terminology.

The Bible has been through at least half a dozen translations by the time you read it. Plus, when the word of God is infected by the hand of man, that is, written down, it is tainted.

"Lost in Translation" by Sofia Coppola. It's a masterpiece. I laughed a lot but was also overwhelmed by the story - a rare combination.

When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation.

I love working with the actors eye-to-eye. I think something gets lost in translation, not only through a monitor, but when you leave the area where the actual scene is taking place.

The subtle differences in language and humor that get lost in translation, for example, make it almost impossible for big companies to do something that will appeal at home and abroad.

Government exists to create and preserve conditions in which people can translate their ideas into practical reality. In the best of times, much is lost in translation. But we try.

When a people has no translations and is unable to promote its culture, it does not exist.

Sometimes words are just a crude translation of love.

Every act of communication is a miracle of translation.

That which is not comprehended by the mind but by which the mind comprehends—know that...

I cannot say that I know Brahman fully.Nor can I say that I know him not....Nor do I know that I know him not.

Animosity does not eradicate animosity. Only by loving kindness is animosity dissolved. This law is ancient and eternal. (attributed to Buddha)

He's got a box with a demon in it that draws pictures, " said Rincewind shortly. "Do what the madman says and he will give you gold.

I’d thought there’d be no winter in the desert, but winter arrived anyway—silently, suddenly.

The dark realization came to him that a difficult and miserable age had begun for him, and he couldn't imagine when it would end. [Puberty]

That you should not be here when something we've both wanted happens is no new thing for me. Today too, as always, you're not here.

For him, the kampung was a place to live and work that was based on a steadfast and intimate relationship between man and nature. The village was a true reflection of life in the tropics.

Cosmos is God, who whispered the syllable of life.

Translating from #cat is easy - you just ignore everything, then you decide what you want it to have said, thought, or wanted.

...literary translators are the interpreters of human values - and the true peacemakers.

A translation is no translation, ’ he said, ‘unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

Life is a series of events and sensations. Everything else is interpretation. Much is lost in translation and added in assumption / projection

The Buddhas speak the wondrous sound throughout the world

I remember clearly the afternoon that she stood at the corner beside the door of the tourist centre in Gdansk.

Pak Karman hugged his wife’s gravestone tightly. “You left without saying farewell!” The whole of the graveyard was ablaze with light.

Thinking is translating 'prosaic-ideas' without accessories" since ideas (in brain) do not follow any metrical composition.

In your opinion, where do private and political life, personal history and History meet? You know the answer, Maya. You say it unhesitatingly - in art and literature.

As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready to enlarge their store.

… I don't know what to say.'‘That’s okay. Sometimes talking is like singing in a storm.’‘Like when you’re scared?’‘Exactly.’‘Or when you’re sad?’‘That too. A voice can be reassuring.

I love these words that just can't be translated from language to language. They seem dignified, grounded, battling against the imperialism of reality.

Sometimes I long to forget… It is painful to be conscious of two worlds.

Only in thoughtful dialogue with what it says can this fragment of thinking be translated. However, thinking is poetizing, and indeed more than one kind of poetizing, more than poetry and song.

Those who can't, and can't teach, translate.(attrib: F.L. Vanderson)

Death is only a translation of life into another language.

Many people just think they understand English, remember.