Translations Quotes

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Pictures rule, but words define, explain, express, direct, and hold together our thoughts and what we know.

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.

The Christian "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection

A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

Every act of communication is an act of translation.

A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.

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

In art as in life, some things need no translation.

Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information-hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.

The translation called good has original value as a work of art.

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

Translation is at best an echo.

Whatever your Bible translation is, it stands on the shoulders of one man - William Tyndale.

It was real Cheyenne. I would get the translations the night before, but it was very difficult because it was not like any other language you would be familiar with.

Translations are a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers.

All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.

Regarding R. H. Blyth: For translations, the best books are still those by R. H. Blyth. . . .

I think that the best literature has a core that you can't lock to a time or place but that can generate lots of meanings and translations.

One of the others shouted a translation: "The beautiful couple is beautiful.

I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.

Cómo se acuerda con los pájaros la traducción de sus idiomas?

A satisfactory translation is not always possible, but a good translator is never satisfied with it. It can usually be improved. (Newmark)

Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that a translation could be bad, very bad, and unfaithful to the original.

Good translations are one of the vital necessities of our time.

The goal of Bible translation is: be transparent to the original text - to see as clearly as possible what the biblical authors actually wrote.

I want my words to survive translation.

Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.

And after I started working for the Bureau, most of my translation duties included translations of documents and investigations that actually started way before 9/11.

I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human sentiment.

I read the different translations of the Bible they had and really just dove into it, almost so I could prove it all right.

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

I don't know what exactly the translation is but when we do consume something now, something else has to give at some point.

I believe every translation is a process in which something is lost in the original precisely so that something is gained in the new text.

To be frank: the translations that often sound bad in the mouths of the actors, these have often been done by linguists.

Time reveals all translation to be paraphrase.

A translation is no translation unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

I mainly wanted non-english writing poets, because I loved the idea that I was translating translations.

There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.

Poetry cannot be translation

Take a look at the number of Bibles on your shelf. Think how grateful you are for the help you've received from various Bible translations and editions over the years.

I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.

To work with Kaz on this kind of project is a fascinating process...He seems to be Dogen himself when offering the translations that we Western collaborators then refine with him.

The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight translations from the German.

I think of translations as passing some scholarly smell test: you can read the words of the translation and be reasonably sure of what the words are in the original.

I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others.

By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.

Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)