Translation Quotes

The Bible has been through at least half a dozen translations by the time you read it. Plus, when th...

When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For...

Deep in her soul, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like a sailor in distress, she w...

Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes.

Why? Because true translation is not a binary affair between two languages but a triangular affair. ...

We read and reread the words of the original text in order to penetrate through them, to reach, to t...

A translation is no translation,’ he said, ‘unless it will give you the music of a poem along with t...

It was under English trees that I meditated on that lost labyrinth: I pictured it perfect and inviol...

Let not the rash marble riskgarrulous breaches of oblivion's omnipotence,in many words recallingname...

When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a c...

Only in thoughtful dialogue with what it says can this fragment of thinking be translated. However, ...

It is naive to suppose that something that has been expressed in one form can be expressed in anothe...

Every text is unique and, at the same time, it is the translation of another text. No text is entire...

In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic ...

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being ...

He's got a box with a demon in it that draws pictures," said Rincewind shortly. "Do what the madman ...

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

Every man who knows anything of languages, knows that it is impossible to translate from one languag...

Translation is the art of failure.

The Tao Te Ching is partly in prose, partly in verse; but as we define poetry now, not by rhyme and ...

All religions are based on obsolete terminology.

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

Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light...